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...drugs. Critics will argue, of course, that the scale of the profit requires some explanation: After all, if an Indian company is able to supply the AIDS-drug cocktail at 5 percent of the price charged in the U.S. and still turn a profit, that speaks of a margin for which "handsome" seems too benign an adjective. It certainly poses the question of what might be a socially acceptable profit margin for lifesaving potions...
...supercenters, the company wrings price concessions from suppliers and passes on the savings to customers. Wal-Mart's 3,118 stores in the U.S. average 38,109 sq m each; Asda's 241 outlets are barely one-third that size. Moreover, Asda is primarily devoted to food, not higher-margin general merchandise...
Facing four consecutive match points, Barry erased a 14-11 deficit to beat Fong 15-14 in the pivotal third game before winning the fourth game by a more comfortable margin...
...those eight wins, the Crimson's average margin of victory was sixteen points. Harvard has fallen by an average of just three points in its trio of home losses...
...rest, however, is not so clear-cut. The recount, we are reminded, did not include the 1,840 ballots where voters cleanly punched holes assigned to no one, including 736 punched in the hole directly beneath Bush's name and 1,017 beneath Gore's. This phantom margin, apparently created by confused or distracted or perhaps just not very bright voters, would be, of course, enough to secure a Gore victory. If, that is, we were in the habit of counting votes next to or beneath or slightly to the left of where voters are supposed to register their vote...