Less revenue means United could face a cash squeeze down the road.
This merger is about buying the lines that connect to the homes of BellSouth customers and selling them everything you can squeeze down a fiber-optic line, including television, Internet, movies and music.
"What I'd like to see is a strong condemnation and a united effort on the part of the Chinese, Russians in the six-party talks to say, 'enough is enough, there will be greater sanctions, we will squeeze down even harder on North Korea, ' " he said.
Any serious profit margin squeeze takes the market down 100 points.
Her motto is that there are only two people in the world: those that are customers of Squeeze In (a down-home dining institution with four locations in Nevada and California) and those that are not.
Or it could hunker down and try to squeeze more taxes out of its workers or consumers.
Some sections required the artists to squeeze through tight openings or scamper down narrow passageways deep into the caves.
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He could defend the peg, but that would again drive up interest rates, pull down stock prices and squeeze the economy in a deathgrip.
Other than inventing the scale-based supply-chain-squeeze model of retail, which must go down as one of the great business innovations of all time, Wal-Mart is hardly known as a foresight-based player.
Congress could either provide guidelines to the executive on how default spending reduction is to occur or it could give the president authority, after paying all interest on the debt and Social Security payments, to whittle spending down as it sees fit to squeeze it within the debt limit.
He said this was largely down to a "deep and protracted squeeze" on many people's real incomes, as inflation outstrips pay rises and energy and food prices increase.
This deal may have developed as slowly as ketchup crawling down a long neck bottle (pre-squeeze container days).
By that logic, the Spending Review is regressive in the broad sense (worse for the bottom half than the top half) but when it comes down to specifics, is actually going to squeeze the middle a little bit more than the absolute poor.
Because a credit squeeze raises market interest rates, it will slow the economy down.
There's Williams, wearing his clown nose and in full sugar-gush, staring down as a small child's hand reaches up to squeeze his melancholy nose.
The real question is whether putting the squeeze on those who might not be able to pay will result in more problems down the road.
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The corresponding political calculation is that bearing down hard on rising prices now would be far better than an involuntary squeeze closer to the next presidential election in 2014.
Things tend to slow down for people in December so they might actually have the time to squeeze in a quick coffee with you (or, if not, you can at least get on their calendars now for after the New Year).
When rich people form buying cartels to put a price squeeze on properly patented drugs, the few win in the short term and everyone loses down the line.
So the only lever plans have to control costs is by closely managing down the networks that they offer, to get more leverage over providers and squeeze medical utilization.
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Fleury went down into his usual butterfly stance and flexed his bare hand when the Rangers managed to squeeze off a shot.
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