Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More substantively, the Senate Democratic caucus voted 29 to 14 to condemn the President's escalation of the war, and by a margin of 35 to 8 to demand a cutoff of funds for the war within four months after the Communists return P.O.W.s. This was meant to coincide with Nixon's latest offer, but it does not require a ceasefire. In the House, the Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats demanded a total U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam by Oct. 1. Again, the only precondition would be release of the prisoners and safe withdrawal of U.S. troops...
...were those two men quaffing a friendly beer together in the Bundestag cafeteria? They were, as it happened, none other than West Germany's two foremost political rivals. Only the week before, Opposition Leader Rainer Barzel had tried and failed by a bare margin of two votes to overthrow Chancellor Willy Brandt. But over beer and in countless hurried conferences, the two men were seeking to find a mutual way out of a severe parliamentary crisis that threatened to have grave repercussions far beyond the borders of the Federal Republic...
...commission also cracked down on the distressingly large number of companies that, it says, have been supplying it with suspicious-looking data or none at all. Under its complex rules, price boosts must not increase a company's profit margin-its ratio of earnings to sales-above that of a pre-control base period. To enforce that rule, the commission had ordered that 2,954 companies file profit-margin reports by last week. Nearly 1,600 failed...
Overdone Worries. The fears are vastly exaggerated. Companies that have profit margins below the Commission's ceilings, and thus can boost prices, greatly outnumber those that are above the ceilings. Eastman Dillon, a leading investment-banking house, calculates that pre-tax profits of all manufacturers could average 8.2% of sales without violating the Commission's ceilings-but that they actually were only 6.9% in last year's fourth quarter, leaving plenty of room for price-increase requests. Even companies that are close to their margin ceilings can raise profits without limit as long as they...
Most important, Zenith lowered its unit profit margin on color-TV sets, enabling it to cut the retail prices of color sets by $30; now a medium-sized set costs about $300. That greatly increased sales-the company has again inched ahead of RCA as the nation's largest seller of color-TV sets. Last month Wright announced that first-quarter sales had risen 22% and net profits had jumped 28%, to $10 million...