The company's lacklustre financial results over the past two years have put its performance-driven management under even greater pressure to squeeze growth from the business and that is just what is causing it such trouble in Europe.
But in private conversations they also express hope that increased US pressure on Pakistan to squeeze the space for militant groups will weaken the army's resolve to continue to support and protect them.
MRSA, for instance, is blamed partly on waiting-time targets which put pressure on hospitals to squeeze in as many patients as possible rather than take care to ensure that hospital-acquired infections do not spread.
Going into its second earnings release as a publicly traded company, Facebook has been under heavy pressure to prove how it will squeeze dollars out of its billion users.
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The modified N900 attaches a resistor that responds to a squeeze at four different pressure levels, and doles that out during a traditional or Skype-based call as a vibration on the other end.
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Some people call this "squeeze" because of the pressure these costs put on family budgets.
Should MAS extend its climb, a short-squeeze situation could amplify buying pressure on the shares.
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Besides a brief meeting with Germany's Chancellor Merkel and France's President Hollande there was not a great deal - beyond I'm told a supply of espressos, haribos, and fruit - to fill the small hours as Brussels negotiators put pressure on other countries to accept a squeeze.
The raids, conducted in Kirkuk and Mosul, were part of an ongoing effort to "put pressure on al Qaeda's networks to squeeze them out of their hiding places, " spokesman for Multi-National Force-Iraq, Lt.
However, there are tentative signs that his allies Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia could reach the point where they squeeze him to submit to the pressure for peace and abandon his hopes of a military victory.
If political pressure became strong enough, rich countries might decide to squeeze foreign labour whatever the economic price.
According to Mr Davies, Local Health Boards are facing a financial squeeze, threatening community hospitals and putting considerable pressure on NHS staff.
They pile the lobbying pressure on with warnings that incentives for investment need to keep coming, and under time pressure, if ageing equipment is to be used to squeeze more out of emptying reservoirs.
The bigger difference is the increasing pressure on local authority budgets, and confirmation that the spending squeeze will last until 2017 at the very least.
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"If you cut one of these in half and you squeeze it, the silicone will protrude from the open end, but if you release the pressure, it goes right back in, " says Robert X.
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