Word: margin
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...House passed its latest bill by a veto-proof vote of 283 to 125; the Senate is expected to pass the legislation by a similar margin. Both versions eliminate the need for the President to declare a budget emergency. Its enactment cannot come too soon for the 332,000 workers whose benefits ended in July (the last month for which figures are available), which is the largest monthly total in at least 40 years...
Traditional presidential re-election campaigns allocate resources to areas won or lost marginally the first time around. A coattail strategy would operate in reverse. In 1988, for example, Bush carried Georgia with 60% of the vote while Democrat Wyche Fowler won his 1986 Senate race by only 2 points. With Fowler facing re-election this year, a coattail campaign would target an even greater effort in Georgia -- not to raise the President's already ample victory margin but to drag in Fowler's Republican challenger...
Polly Williams has inspired free-market visionaries elsewhere in the country. A proposal to provide tuition vouchers for 5,000 students in troubled New York schools was defeated this summer by the State Board of Regents by a surprisingly narrow margin. And a private corporation, the Golden Rule Insurance Co., has pledged to donate $1.2 million over the next three years to help 748 inner-city students in Indianapolis attend private schools...
Anyone who still remembers bike shops as dark, cluttered places smelling of oil and rubber would be startled to walk into a modern American bike outlet. Spotless and often carpeted, crawling with salespeople and outfitted with dressing rooms, specialty bike shops rely on high-margin clothing and cycling gizmos for up to 25% of their revenues. The glamour of biking now draws neophytes who browse through racks of hip-hugging shorts and brightly colored shirts even before they know the difference between a derailleur and a train accident...
Offering stunning graphics and a stylish design, the Macintosh caught on well in the home and school markets, where Apple's machines now outsell IBM's by a two-to-one margin. Big Blue has always been frustrated in those markets. In the mid-'80s, IBM offered the PCjr, a stripped-down version of its best seller, but the machine flopped because it couldn't operate many of the heavy- duty software programs designed for the PC. Yet IBM has virtually locked Apple out of the office market, mainly because IBM's operating software has been adopted...