Word: margin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even pass anything Ian Smith doesn't want. The whites retained over a fourth of the seats in Parliament, as well as veto power over any constitutional changes. Plus, the whites elected their own representatives earlier this year, and got to vote again to add to Muzorewa's margin...
...enforcement office of the DOE's Economic Regulatory Administration was receiving 500 complaints a week of price gouging. But after auditing 2,000 stations' books, federal officials concluded that most of the nation's 171,000 gas station owners had not raised prices beyond the profit-margin limits imposed by the Government...
...from Thursday through Sunday, in protest against federal price controls. Though the retail price of gasoline has risen 20% in the past few months, almost all of that has represented a simple pass-along of higher wholesale prices. Dealers have been permitted only two small increases in the gross margin of selling price over buying cost since 1973, and out of that they have to pay more for wages, rent, heat. It is too early to tell how widely the shutdown will be observed, but in some states the impact may be severe. When the Memorial Day weekend comes, closings...
...course, we have to hire the best tax lawyers and lobbyists. Government red tape imposes tremendous costs on us, costs which we have to pass on immediately to you to maintain our profit margin. Without our lawyers and lobbyists, we would be unable to make ends meet. We wouldn't be able to take advantage of reduced capital gains taxes and depreciation allowances. And without our lobbyists, we would be saddled with things like the wind-fall profits...
That's the beauty of our free enterprise system--we can do whatever we want to, regardless of social needs or social costs, with only the profit margin to guide...