Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of the U.S. an issue in the local campaign. Philadelphians knew that they had been getting good government, and they knew the veteran Dilworth far better than they knew amateur Longstreth. The final count: 420,099 for Dilworth to 288,646 for Longstreth. Although Dilworth's margin was less than Adlai Stevenson's Philadelphia margin over Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, it was the worst beating a Republican candidate for mayor of Philadelphia had ever taken...
...that he had no desire to continue in office with Communist support. He had not been defeated, and therefore was not obliged to resign. Edgar Faure, whose thirst for the premiership is all but unquenchable, decided to stay on the job, even though the Communists had given him his margin of survival...
...assignment: to travel through the Near East and Southeast Asia, paying calls on animals threatened with extinction, and try to figure out how to keep them from following the dodo. Last week Talbot was back in the U.S., having escaped extinction himself on several occasions by a narrow margin, and bringing curious tales about the "fossils of the future." Rhino & Cures. The biggest of the threatened animals is the Indian rhinoceros, of which only a few hundred survive. A creature that only an animal man could love, it has the temper of a bald hornet, the odor of cattle-boat...
Changing the Rule. In 1929's wide-open trading, brokers had wide latitude, could set margin requirements as low as 20%. Stock pools, and a hundred other maneuvers to manipulate the market, were part of the game. Even companies themselves helped pyramid the shaky market, dumping in funds for margin buying. When the funds were pulled out, it helped bring on the collapse...
...today's market, the Federal Reserve Board sets all margin requirements. Now fixed at 70%, they have discouraged excess speculation. Customers' margin-buying debt was $2.9 billion last week, only 1.4% of the value of all listed stocks. The SEC and the exchange itself keep a sharp eye out for any market manipulation. Exchange members (and their firms) who break the rules can be hauled up before the New York Stock Exchange's board of governors, where they get a stern grilling, and punishment if found guilty. Last year 20 or 30 brokers were disciplined; in extreme...