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Analysts also said that the drug industry had lost some pricing flexibility, making price increases more difficult.

"The company seems to have tremendous pricing flexibility at the newsstand."

Price flexibility was also increased, expanding the service sector.

"That would give us additional pricing flexibility," he said.

Under the previous accord, price flexibility, flight frequency and destinations were restricted.

Truckers are finding it easier to enter the business and they have more pricing flexibility.

The industry says price flexibility has also been squeezed by large buyers amid growing competition as drugs are copied.

Mitchell criticizes the suggestion that price flexibility alone would resolve the demand problem.

He likes the pricing flexibility of advertising companies.

And he said he welcomed part of the decision that opened the door to greater pricing flexibility for local carriers.

When labels demanded pricing flexibility, Steve Jobs called them greedy.

Williams said, "Greater productivity and employment would result if greater price flexibility were attained."

"Policy changes could well affect pricing flexibility."

Furthermore, pointing to inflexibility in some prices does not by itself show that the assumption of general price flexibility is unreasonable.

The prospect of price flexibility is good for Detroit, but it has less comforting implications for the overall inflation rate.

Most importantly, pricing flexibility has been unwound.

A combined operation would have greater buying power when dealing with vendors, giving it more pricing flexibility to compete against mass marketers, they said.

In the current low-inflation environment, however, I don't believe manufacturers can enjoy the same pricing flexibility prevailing in the past."

Knowing that the Conservancy has more price flexibility, Mr. Hendrickson agreed to talk.

Price Flexibility and Employment.

They note that the catalogues must be printed way ahead of time, giving the retailer less pricing flexibility than other discounters such as Wal-Mart.

The price of PC banking is likely to fall, but Citibank may have more price flexibility because it operates its own system.

But the panel's 90-page report leaves unaddressed other matters, like pricing flexibility, that Nynex also considers burdensome.

We shall consider these counter-attacks under two broad headings: those which maintain the assumption of price flexibility; and those which do not.

It may be that the cited deviations from price flexibility are empirically unimportant; that is, they do not significantly affect the 'average' behaviour of prices.