"lift" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Falling prices for newsprint, which represents about 20 percent of total newspaper costs, is helping to lift earnings for publishers.
- But currency- translation gains because of a weak American dollar have lifted earnings and sales.
- The booming stock market lifted earnings of Dean Witter's securities business to $56.6 million, up 68.5 percent, from $33.6 million a year ago.
- And while the moves have left revenues flat, the company has pleased shareholders by buying back 10 percent of its stock, lifting per-share earnings.
- And they question whether fee-based businesses - an increasingly important source of bank revenue - will lift earnings.
- Expenses in one period were pushed into later quarters, with the combined effect of artificially lifting both sales and earnings.
- Mr. Burnett also says health care executives are finding it tougher than ever to lift earnings.
- A lower tax rate and favorable currency exchange rates also helped to lift earnings.
- Nonrecurring tax benefits are expected to lift total earnings to the range of 30 cents to 35 cents.
- The company spun off Comet in the second quarter of 2001, and in doing so, lifted earnings per share.
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