Word: pinches
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...traditional early-bird specials may not be in a spending mood. Americans are facing higher food, gas and energy prices this year, expenses that make up close to 20% of the typical consumer budget, according to Bain & Company's retail holiday report. And many people are feeling the pinch from the continuing credit crunch, including higher mortgage costs and the depreciation in home values. "Consumers have the highest debt they have ever had with 24 months of negative savings," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., a national retail-consulting firm. "They can't use their homes as piggy...
...International Center for Air Transportation. "We had $85 oil a month ago and tried to test $100 last week. Any time an industry is facing unprecedented cost increases like that it is time to start looking at ways to shed fixed cost." The price of oil is a pinch felt by everyone, and Swelbar says that any merger will signal "game on" to the industry. "If this pushes that first domino, everybody has hinted they will respond in kind...
Asia's major airlines will soon start feeling the pinch. Airline analysts and executives expect budget carriers to drag down fares throughout Asia. Both Singapore Airlines and Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific, Asia's premier airlines, deny they are cutting prices in response to this new threat. But they have been offering what they call routine special promotions. In May Cathay Pacific sold round trips between Hong Kong and Singapore for $128even less than the $160 fare offered by Singapore-based low-cost carrier Valuair, which started flying that same month. Major airlines "have been advertising prices even lower than...
...were a dancer for a while. Now you weave, keep journals, make pinch pots from clay...What made you want to be an artist...
...With crude oil closing in on $100 a barrel, the pinch of higher prices is being felt worldwide. In China, however, the impact of the hikes has been shortages at the pump, and tempers are running hot. Last weekend, a man was fatally stabbed in Shandong province after he jumped the queue at a local gas station. A second man in Henan province was killed in a similar incident Tuesday...