Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to the ballot, would seep into the town of Tuskegee has been heightened by a steady increase in Negro registration-despite the fact that meetings of the all-white board of registrars have been few and far between. White voters still outnumber registered Negro voters, but the margin is growing slim-about...
...Treasury should have moved much faster to keep U.S. Government securities rates in line with the overall money market. By hiking rates a fraction at a time, always too little too late, Secretary Humphrey has, in effect, guaranteed the failure of long-term issues. He has also increased the margin between Government and corporate bonds instead of narrowing it. On a straight interest basis, Government bonds paid as much as 2.37½^% in 1952 v. an average 3.42% for corporate issues; today, the highest paying Government bond rate is 3¼% v. almost 5% for some corporate issues...
...average voter as a case of fallen arches." Not until the second to last paragraph did the magazine reveal its own Achilles' heel. The doleful editorial had been written before election day, and was based on the assumption that the Liberal government would be reelected by a safe margin...
...tough competition for contracts, in which a penny's difference in the cost of moving a yard of dirt can be the margin between profit and loss, road builders must use all the machines - roughly $1 worth of equipment for every dollar's worth of earth moved (about 3 cu. yd. at current costs). On modern highways an average of a million cu. yd. a mile is moved...
...uplift. "Look at all these operations!'' he screams at his partner. "If we ran a union shop . . . we'd go broke making this dress." By paying his workers less than the contract minimum, Boss Cobb maintains what garment gamesmen call "The Edge''-a margin of profit that can make the difference between retirement to Miami or to a county relief check. But to keep the union out, he must pay a stiff percentage of his profits to an underworking (Richard Boone) whose strongboys keep the little man in line and the union organizers...