Its sales rise slowly (foreign growth offsetting sluggish conditions in the U.S.), but by holding costs down its profits rise a little more swiftly.
She talks candidly and a little ferociously about her rise to the top, and how being a woman has simultaneously challenged and freed her to pursue her own career trajectory.
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Bedbug infestations have increased over the years and experts say they are likely to continue to rise for a little while longer.
"The good news is that manufacturing clocked up a fifth straight rise, whilst cost pressures have eased a little and some firms are still recruiting, " said Lee Hopley, chief economist at EEF, the manufacturers' organisation.
These funds offer a little bit higher yield, and a little lower duration so they offer a little more protection in case interest rates were to rise.
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In the hall, there was an overwhelming sense of relief among the Labour members that they had a leader who could rise to the occasion, and appear, well, a little more prime ministerial than he has done in the past.
If they put pressure on Foxconn to raise wages, well, I think we probably would see those wages rise, at least a little.
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The trend, though, is a little discouraging: the 40, 000 rise in employment in the three months to October is the smallest since the start of the year.
In notable economic news this week, consumer spending stalled in May, as purchases were little changed after a 0.1 percent rise the prior month according to Commerce Department figures.
Firms said they expected domestic prices to rise and export prices to fall a little.
We started to see the sun rise and maybe we're a little further into that.
The transaction that gave rise to the deficiency notice is a little complicated.
After accelerating somewhat during 1995, the rise in these costs has steadied a little (see second panel of chart), suggesting that productivity is rising in step with wages.
Instead nominal wages would rise a bit, real wages only a little and unit labour costs would then fall to more internationally competitive levels.
"Sometimes when you hit a few bad shots it's not as easy to reel it in, and things start to go a little bit quicker, " said Williams, who will rise to fourth in the rankings.
But if you look at what's driving that 70, 000 rise in joblessness, the picture is a little brighter - and a reflection of the different way that the labour market has operated in this recession, compared with either the 1980s or early 1990s.
As a result, pay bears little relationship to performance and tends to rise inexorably.
Even when those inventories are worked off, house prices will probably rise little, if at all, in a low inflation or deflationary climate.
In a hirer's market, there is little chance that wages will rise.
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However, Christopher Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration applied a little common sense to the data by factoring out inflation, the rise in individual wealth over the period and, crucially, the increasing tendency of people to live by the seaside.
Since real rates will rise in a deflationary environment, Credit Suisse also likes companies with little debt.
And even though the overall unemployment rate came down just a little bit last month, unemployment for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan continued to rise.
And then over time, what happens is when Medicare observes the hospital profit margins to rise, Medicare says, OK, then we can pay a little less because the private insurers are paying so much more.
So the NY Times laid it down: yes, the NYPD has that report linking the iPod to a rise in subway crime in New York, but it gets a little more bleak when they call in Beckerman PR vice-prez David Brooks, who claims, "Half of you is cringing, but half is bursting with pride" over the news.
But I believe strongly that America's young people will rise to the challenge if given the opportunity -- and given a little bit of a push.
The US construction market should start to pick up at least a little in 2011, and construction in Saudi Arabia and other oil exporters may well rise with increasing oil export revenue.
Unless new boosters come along, Arnott and Bernstein say, investors today should not count on more than the paltry earnings and dividend growth discovered in the study: a little less than per capita gross domestic product, which they say is unlikely to rise above 2% anytime soon.
The rise of organised retail will save Indians money, even if it adds a little anomie.
As the economy strengthens--whether a little or a lot--it is likely that long-term interest rates will rise.
Adjusted for inflation and tax changes, the rise was a miserable 0.3% and sales taxes may fall a little in fiscal 2002.
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