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...offers and financing deals that slice 13%, or roughly $3,000, off the sticker price. After allowing for dealer profits, that leaves a negative return for Ford. The Altima, meanwhile, earns Nissan an estimated $1,500 (beyond the dealer's profit), contributing to the company's fat overall operating margin of 10.8%. You know the joke about the merchant who loses a little money on each sale but says, "I'll make it up on volume"? Don't tell that joke in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motor Trends: Why The Most Profitable Cars Made in the U.S.A. are Japanese and German | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...matchup between Bajin and Stanford’s Alice Barnes at No. 4 pitted two players who were undefeated for the regular season. Barnes, ranked No. 11 nationally, took a close first set by 6-4 margin and rolled to a 6-0 win in the second...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 17 W. Tennis Falls to No. 1 Stanford in Sweet 16 | 5/16/2003 | See Source »

Three times the squads have squared off and three times Princeton has climbed out of its boat victorious—but not by much. Radcliffe’s largest margin of defeat was 2.1 seconds...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lights Challenge No. 1 Tigers at Sprints | 5/16/2003 | See Source »

...very good start,” Brown said. “We pulled out ahead and then maintained that margin. We just steadily moved beyond them...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Heavies Trounce Huskies | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...reason that our coach set the goal at twenty seconds is because that is the margin that Brown and Yale beat [the Huskies] by last week,” junior Lis Lambert said. “The difference is that [the Bears and the Bulldogs] were racing against each other, while we needed a sustained, focused effort on our own. It was a tremendous accomplishment...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Heavies Trounce Huskies | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

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