Industry critics say that as consumer preference has shifted toward cremation, funeral homes are jacking up prices in an attempt to preserve profits in a declining market.

业界批评人士指出，随着消费者偏好已转向火化，殡仪馆正在提高价格以保持市场衰退时的利润。

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Jacking-up apparatus for high pressure oil.

高压油顶起重装置。

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At the same time the installation of monumental scaffolding made it possible to completely free the existing structures of their constraints by jacking up the dome a few millimeters.

同时大型脚手架的运用也使得将原有结构中穹顶提高几毫米高度变成可能。

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Most retailers are in a position to boost their profits, at least in the short term, by widening the gross margin--jacking up prices, that is.

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And even when governments raise the money, they should first get rid of deductions and reverse unmeritocratic measures (such as George Bush's repeal of America's death tax) rather than jacking up income-tax rates to punitive levels.

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On Oct. 30, the company announced that is was jacking up prices on its bromine-based chemicals.

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