That's what's gonna happen... ...as soon as I squeeze the profit out of this company.

Eastern Europe's comparative advantage may have been amplified by the general squeeze on profit margins, which has made multinational companies even more sensitive to their production costs.

For these sectors, rapid investment-driven growth in thepast decade has produced a mountain of excess capacity, reflectedin stagnant prices and the banking sector’s soaring volume of badloans, as price wars squeeze profitability and stimulatereal-estate speculation.