Word: margin
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Under such circumstances every acquisition entails a sacrifice, and there is no margin for error or whim. The Wells children stay home from class skating trips because Sandy cannot manage the $1.50 for skate rental. "They know the value of money, my kids do," she says. "They get money, they don't spend it on candy or toys. They say, 'Mom, I want to buy shoes for school.' " But every now and then, when equanimity ruptures, the family will splurge. One time last fall, Sandy recalls, "we paid the lot rent and we had, like, $40 left. It was supposed...
...moment, Harkin is trading at $1.20 and Tauke at 80 cents. Do these price fluctuations have any bearing on the November outcome? The same faculty group set up a market for the 1988 presidential race; the day before the election, prices indicated a preference for Bush shares by a margin of 7.6% -- almost exactly his edge in the nationwide popular vote...
...point, an assistant to Murphy offered to reimburse one of the whistle blowers, Stanley Welli, for his legal fees in return for his silence. In a 1988 internal IRS memo that described Welli's appeal for help to the OSC, Murphy scrawled the comment MISTAKE! in the margin. Last March senior IRS officials awarded Murphy a plaque for "exemplary conduct which sets the standard for ethics and integrity for all IRS employees...
Instead, the Crimson mainly focused on Washington as the team to beat. It was the Washington team that had taken the top honor away from Harvard in the first regatta of the year in San Diego in April, by a very close margin. The Crimson went to Cincinnati determined not to let that happen again...
What was the most shocking about the loss was the almost nine-second difference between their losing margin in the Cincinnati race and their winning margin in the Sprints. "It was a pretty major change," said Marple. "I just don't think we were as aggressive as we were at the Eastern Sprints...