Though greater competition puts pressure on bookies' profit margins, the increase in turnover wrought by the tax cut is more than compensating.
We forecast the fee percentage to remain at around this value in the years to come, with increasing competition putting pressure on the fees charged.
As increasing global competition put pressure on the American industry, we became complacent, believing that our historical strengths in innovation would ensure that new clean energy technologies would continue to be invented here.
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She said that some may survive, thanks to last-minute Christmas shopping, but that others would be hit by the quarterly rent day, which falls on Christmas Day, as well as fierce competition and pressure to keep profit margins low.
We have to make sure it is a competition with less pressure, for enjoyment.
Retailers today are looking for ways to offset increasing competition, pricing pressure and operating costs.
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Besides, the lack of competition applies little pressure to the industry to innovate.
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Despite the competition, the pressure breeds a sort of battlefield camaraderie.
But yes, there is a pressure to compete, and the pressure of competition is huge.
And leading firms are emphasizing company-wide cost reductions, as strong competition and excess capacity pressure operating margins.
Far from the bustle of Boston and the pressure of competition from other eager inventors, he mulled over everything he had discovered about sound.
By "other contexts" he means playing in the pressure of competition, but also driving off the first tee in front of friends and hitting off a downhill lie.
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Not a good sign in my view as more likely than too many competitors means the likelihood is high that the competition will intensify and pressure both pricing and margins.
Germany's power and telecommunications industries, where Hartmann has directed 56% of Veba's capital spending since 1995, are feeling the harsh winds of liberalization and competition, creating relentless pressure on prices and margins.
These pro-growth reforms are the result of tax competition, or the pressure to adopt competitive economic policies that is put on governments by an increasingly globalized society where both labor and capital are mobile.
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"Less competition for licensees means less pressure to offer higher quality or lower prices to attract business, " the report says.
This does not factor in potential pricing declines due to heightened competition which could add further pressure in this scenario.
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Simon Douglas of AA Insurance said stiff competition for business was putting pressure on premiums, despite the fact that the cost of claims was still rising.
Vodafone said the pressure from price competition and continuing economic problems in the eurozone had been partially offset by improved revenue from data services, as more people had smartphones.
High school students in particular are facing greater academic pressure and college competition than ever before, and all those AP classes and extracurricular activities can eat into sleep time.
Another involves trade policy, where economic populists in the party are less friendly to expansion of free trade and more concerned about U.S. workers under pressure from foreign competition.
Other potential obstacles included declining flexible work arrangements that are perceived to be costly, less focus on diversity due to amplified performance pressure and increased competition over fewer open positions.
This year, 6-year-old Lori Anne Madison, the youngest speller on record with the Scripps National Spelling Bee, told the Washington Post that she doesn't feel undue pressure during Bee competition.
On the same day that Deutsche Telekom said it would not bid for O2, it unveiled plans to relieve the pressure of intense competition at home: it will reduce its German workforce by 19, 000, some 11% of the total, over the next three years.
But competition means choice for students and pressure on colleges to improve and innovate.
We tempered their numbers with an assumption of increased competition and the likelihood of government pressure on their pricing.
Concerns over consistency and dealing with the pressure of Test level competition, the sort of 'mental vermin' that fuel my game.
An onslaught of competition in recent years has put pressure on earlier movers such as Christine to keep up with changes in consumer tastes.
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Intense competition in the media and the pressure of 24 hour news meant the media was so driven by impact that accuracy took second place.
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