Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even with all the planning, the margin of possible error is uncomfortably large. At about six hours before reentry, NASA'S projected impact points for Skylab's disintegrating parts occur somewhere along a path of 40,000 miles?nearly twice the circumference of the globe. At two hours, the final anticipated flight track still extends over a 13,000mile path. Testing its prediction on a falling Soviet Cosmos booster stage on April 29, NORAD made an estimate two hours before re-entry? and missed the actual impact points in the Pacific by 4,000 miles...
...House of Representatives is debating a bill, approved by a large margin in the Senate, to establish a separate Department of Education Although the bill is being delayed by numerous amendments, representatives expect by tomorrow a close vote that could go either...
When crude petroleum enters a refinery, the buyer records its price. To that figure the refiner is allowed to add a margin varying in size to cover processing costs and profit. Until this year, the price of a refiner's product was based on how large a percentage of a barrel of crude it represented. That was considered unfair in the case of gasoline, which costs more to produce than most other oil products. So the refiner was allowed to increase his margin on gasoline by an average...
...refiner is paid by the wholesaler, who adds a margin averaging 4?. The retailer is then allowed the same margin he got in 1973, plus a 3? inflation increase, a pass-through allowance for higher rental costs and a further price boost for antipollution requirements. All that adds up to about a dime...
...Mexican exports of tomatoes, eggplant, bell peppers, squash and cucumbers have been "dumped" in the U.S.-that is, sold at prices below their cost of production. Should the Mexicans be found guilty of violating the antidumping law they would have to pay duties on their produce to cover the margin of dumping. The issue is hot. As a State Department specialist puts it: "We have much bigger interests at stake in this matter than merely tomatoes...