11. With their profits squeezed by the dollar, companies will be more likely to cut additional jobs. 12. Worries about a profit squeeze pushed the Dow Jones industrial average below 9, 000 this week. 13. The profit squeeze is intense and business is reacting by trying to shed workers to control cost. 14. With luxury profits squeezed and retailers watching budgets, this is not a propitious time for young designers. 15. He blamed much of the job loss on companies fighting a profit squeeze by laying off workers. 16. Oxford and WellPoint, though, largely escaped the profit squeeze because they set prices high enough last year. 17. KeyCorp and PNC Bank both enjoyed a surge in lending, only to see profits squeezed by narrow margins. 18. Corporations are seeing their profits squeezed , he said, because the cost of paying and training workers is rising. 19. Whenever a product is profitable, everyone jumps in and starts production, quickly leading to over-supply and a profit squeeze . 20. Hale said corporations are seeing their profits squeezed because the cost of keeping and training workers has been rising.
