81.   Job creation can cause price pressures because employers are sometimes forced to bid up wages to attract scarce workers.

82.   Krones said earlier this year that sales and earnings would remain flat as price pressure and weaker demand dampened growth.

83.   Last week, New York Fed President William McDonough said the U.S. economy is still expanding with little inflation, even though some price pressures have appeared.

84.   Lindsey offered an upbeat assessment of consumer price pressures this year.

85.   Lower capital spending trends, tight labor markets, and price pressure from around the world are making earnings growth an uphill climb.

86.   Manufacturing activity picked up speed in the Midwest during November even as price pressures eased, the Purchasing Management Association of Chicago said today.

87.   Merck said it expects sales in its contrast imaging business to decline, though, because of price pressures in the U.S., Europe and Japan.

88.   More important for longer-term price pressure, labor costs are also rising.

89.   Nevertheless, competition from lower-priced generic copies of branded drugs and price pressure from managed-care companies seem unlikely to disappear.

90.   Nevertheless, competition from lower-priced generic copies of branded drugs and price pressure from managed-health-care companies continued.