The San Antonio-based companies are facing sagging profits, scant demand for products and declining prices in a difficult economy, said John Challenger, chief executive of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas in Chicago.
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In part, they are cushioned by big subsidies from the European Union, but if there is scant demand for their oil and their trees wither, there is little other work in this region for them.
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Simon & Schuster announced last week that it would open its own online store to sell digital editions of its books directly to consumers, moving ahead with the plan despite scant demand to read such books.
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Simon & AMP; Schuster announced last week that it would open its own online store to sell digital editions of its books directly to consumers, moving ahead with the plan despite scant demand to read such books.
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Drug companies are reluctant to invest in vaccines for severe acute respiratory syndrome because there might be scant demand if SARS doesn't resurface, Yuen said on the sidelines of a news conference announcing a new infectious diseases laboratory.
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PT Telkom, Indonesia's state telephone company, cut the size of its initial public offering last month by 36 percent, reducing the price of its shares and the number of shares it sold because of scant demand from investors outside the country.
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U . S . bonds dived overnight after scant demand for the U . S . Treasury's auction of $ 18 billion of three-year notes punctured optimism that Japanese investors will stock up at 10-and 30-year bond sales later in the week.
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CORPORATE-LAYOFFS ( San Antonio ) _ SBC Communications Inc . and insurance giant USAA, which both announced rounds of layoffs this week, may face more belt-tightening in the months ahead, analysts said Friday, citing sagging profits, scant demand for products and declining prices in a difficult economy.
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