But smaller, less prominent schools often lack the capital to upgrade their facilities or to market themselves and are being squeezed out.
In the cellular arena the future is less promising: HKT has been losing market share to SmarTone and Hutchison -- the two other major players -- and is being squeezed by smaller, nimbler wireless outfits like Sunday as well.
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Last month a team of British researchers from Cambridge published startling statistics in the respected British medical journal The Lancet revealing that suicides in both the U.S. and Europe increased dramatically in the years between 2007 and 2009, when economies were crumbling, jobs disappearing, and wallets being squeezed.
With Social Security and Medicare already being squeezed, savvy individuals should ensure their assets are protected and their life wishes documented.
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With few new military programs left to pursue and its jetliners being squeezed out of the commercial-transport market by Airbus and Boeing, McDonnell Douglas had run out of options: in 1997 it merged with Boeing and disappeared from the ranks of Pentagon contractors.
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Funding from councils and other sources is being squeezed, though, and Arts Council England has decided to focus capital money on improving existing buildings rather than putting up new ones.
But the average pharmacy ekes out a 2% profit on prescriptions, and those profits are being squeezed further as health plans and managed care organizations demand ever-deeper discounts.
Overall, we know that employment has grown in the past 2 years by 750, 000, at a time when households and businesses were being squeezed.
He said underlying costs were increasing and margins were being squeezed.
That said, industries such as chemicals and aviation are being squeezed: a robust recovery reported this week by British Airways, for example, is threatened by rising jet-fuel prices.
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And it's being squeezed by the ongoing turmoil in the credit markets.
"The government does not believe the case can be made for greater state funding of political parties at a time when budgets are being squeezed and economic recovery remains the highest priority, but we are committed to limiting donations and reforming party funding, " the spokesman said.
Boxing, tennis, track and field, soccer and horse-racing are being squeezed out.
"Nationally, bank margins are being squeezed, and banks must adjust their funding costs accordingly, " says Citizens National Bank Senior Vice President Stacy Lauer.
The resulting competition is driving prices down for core MDM products, and, like a balloon being squeezed, is forcing the vendors in this market to offer additional capabilities to differentiate.
The danger is that today's woes will distract attention from a far bigger threat to Hyundai and, indeed, to South Korea as a whole: being squeezed between the high-tech Japan on one side and low-cost China on the other.
Research funding is being squeezed in Europe and North America.
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Others say that liberals and greens, seeing their own parties being squeezed out, will swing over to the big two in order to block the Freedomites.
Mill is being squeezed from the top and bottom, and the lanky Robbins is perfect for the part: watching him under stress is like seeing a tube of toothpaste bunch up in the middle.
EU's governments gave in to demands by Italy's new finance minister, Giuliano Amato, to let the target for his government's budget deficit for 1999 edge up from 2% to 2.4%, conceding that he was being squeezed by high unemployment and a dull economy.
Mitt Romney risks being squeezed out of the debate and is resuming campaigning tomorrow.
He mentioned the middle class and he mentioned that the middle class was being squeezed.
Nokia, along with the rest of Europe's mobile industry, is also being squeezed in both simple handsets and networking equipment.
Potential buyers, who are being squeezed by rising interest rates and tighter lending rules, seem content to wait on the sidelines.
Our correspondent says defence spending is being squeezed in the US, and the Pentagon believes tough decisions have to be made about where the main threat lies.
Costs are being squeezed in the crisis countries - and pushed up in Germany.
Margins are being squeezed as the cost of fuels and raw materials surges.
Think of multinational corporations clear-cutting tropical forests, home-grown movies being squeezed out by Hollywood blockbusters, and the Asian Financial Crisis.
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