Input price pressures are abating and this should reduce uncertainty and pressure on profit margins in coming months.

The cable companies are concerned about their profit margins.

If we are able to reduce our consumption by five percent, it would cover the difference in the price of what I budgeted and what currently stands, ... The market is tight with fuel. I dont think anybody has any idea where fuel prices are going. I think we all feel the pinch each time we go to gas station to fill our own vehicles. Were feeling the same pinch when we fill our buses.

There were subtle pressures, and we didn't really realize where they were coming from, and we had just come back from a tour, a crazy tour, and we were still wet behind the ears and had no idea really what a second album meant.

reduce the pressure on the nuclear trigger.

We've undersold ourselves. The retailers have been absorbing price changes. They're prepared to lower their margins.