• It's on a residential street in the island and it's now opening six days a week instead of just on Saturdays, just to be extra helpful to local residents, and to squeeze up recycling rates that extra percent.

    BBC

  • Another brilliantly odd pairing arrives when Squeeze pair up with Manfred Mann singer, and now Radio 2 presenter, Paul Jones - on harmonica - to perform the album's title track.

    BBC: Please, Please Me: Artists recreate The Beatles' debut

  • Too many short sellers trying to cover at once creates the proverbial short squeeze, driving up prices further.

    FORBES: Beaten Up By Shorts, Strayer Looks Cheap

  • 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.

    CNN: Review: Sick humor in 'Patch Adams'

  • However, in the current weak economic climate, firms with lots of spare capacity find it hard to pass on costs, so rising labour costs are more likely to squeeze profits than to push up inflation.

    ECONOMIST: As growth slumps, inflation jumps

  • But there is a reason the recession hit late here: Half or more of Caterpillar's business is tied to overseas exports, and only recently has the global slowdown caught up with the squeeze many American manufacturers were already feeling at home.

    CNN: Recession comes late but hits hard in Peoria

  • For them, it has been testing a new bit of technology - called the broadband regenerator - which it hopes can squeeze a fairly decent speed - up to 5Mbps - out of lines that have struggled before.

    BBC: When will UK rural areas get fast-speed fibre internet?

  • The fear here is that a Democratic-controlled Congress will again squeeze student lenders and attempt to ramp up competition from the direct lending program.

    FORBES: Thanks To The Democrats: Sallie Looks Cheap

  • This may speed up as recent tax hikes squeeze the hard-pressed middle class and if, as appears likely, the social media bubble continues to deflate.

    FORBES: Where Americans Are Moving

  • The conglomerates may be able to withstand this ad squeeze better, since they can mop up some of their excess ad space to promote their own brands.

    ECONOMIST: Media companies: Sucked into quicksand | The

  • Since it is unlikely that all the G20 leading governments - especially the US - will sign up to put the big squeeze on investment banks, the Treasury may succeed in killing the tax (the UK can veto it in the EU).

    BBC: How scary is a financial transactions tax?

  • They said that by using stereolithography, their printer could offer "layer thicknesses and feature sizes that are worlds ahead of what is possible with" the existing technique used by budget printers, which melt plastic and squeeze it through a nozzle to build up each layer of an object.

    BBC: Kickstarter sued over 3D Systems' printer patent

  • The firm has begun to buy up other nearly exhausted mines, and squeeze extra life out of them.

    ECONOMIST: South African gold mining

  • In future, the entire Duma will be made up from party lists, which will squeeze out independent legislators.

    ECONOMIST: The Kremlin's control freak | The

  • "The way airlines have taken 130-seat airplanes and expanded them to 150 seats to squeeze out more revenue I think is finally catching up with them, " said Dean Headley, a business professor at Wichita State University who has co-written the annual report for 23 years.

    NPR: Airline Passenger Complaints Surged In 2012

  • "The way airlines have taken 130-seat airplanes and expanded them to 150 seats to squeeze out more revenue I think is finally catching up with them, " said Dean Headley, a business professor at Wichita State University in Kansas who has co-written the annual report for 23 years.

    NPR: Full Flights, Small Seats Make Passengers Grumpy

  • It said its up-market range was protected from a sales squeeze suffered by Britain's biggest department store chain Marks and Spencer.

    BBC: Tourist slump hits Harvey Nicks

  • When we mess up, we think we can always do a squeeze job to repair, redirect, seal or otherwise fix the job afterwards.

    FORBES: The Fracking Solution Is A Good Cement Job

  • He could defend the peg, but that would again drive up interest rates, pull down stock prices and squeeze the economy in a deathgrip.

    CNN: FIGHTING 'GODZILLAS'

  • But that number has been flat for years, and researchers are feeling the squeeze as more and more of their grant money is eaten up by fixed costs.

    FORBES: Billionaire Science Projects

  • The attendant will work up an almighty lather with an enormous sponge and squeeze it all over you - it is a bit like taking a bubble bath without the bath.

    BBC: A guide to Istanbul��s bath houses

  • Most businessmen were at first strongly opposed to the measure, saying that it would put up the cost of labour by 11% to make up for the four hours lost each week, squeeze productivity, prompt lay-offs and spread poverty.

    ECONOMIST: France��s shorter week

  • However, a particular bond may also be wanted because someone in the market is trying to lock up a large portion of the issue and create a squeeze.

    ECONOMIST: Repurchase agreements

  • Lower prices could, in fact, squeeze the entire industry of e-reader accessories that has sprung up in recent years to outfit the Kindle and its competitors with protective covers, external lights and special carrier bags.

    FORBES: E-reader Prices Drop; Will Accessory Prices Follow?

  • The fear is that a jump in prices will squeeze profit margins as the cost of commodities, goods, and transportation spikes up.

    FORBES: Of Navy SEALs, Steel-Hearted Analysts And The 'Formidable Four' Stocks

  • Another way to tighten margins and please investors is to kick up its marketing efforts and seek to offer the right promotions to squeeze sales out of an economy where consumers are hesitant to spend.

    FORBES: Zale Gets Pre-Holiday Boost

  • To keep up the growth pace, Amazon will have to keep finding new markets to squeeze, be they in content streaming or electronic payments.

    FORBES: Amazon: Another Dell In the Making?

  • Contracts with CVS Caremark for McKesson and competitor Cardinal Health are both up for renewal this summer, suggesting lower profits ahead if CVS decides to squeeze its suppliers.

    FORBES

  • Instead, Rivera and Pettitte will open the year as lonely icons, trying to build a team from disparate parts and squeeze one more run out of what's left of this tired, beat-up crew.

    WSJ: New York Yankees: Searching for Life Amid the Fossils

  • So there may be more than a billion people who call themselves Catholic, but if they all turned up to Mass this Sunday, there would probably be a bit of a squeeze to fit them all in the pews.

    BBC: How do you count Catholics?

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