Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson recovered from the near catastrophe and promptly moved out to an open water lead at 1200 meters. The margin reached a length-and-a half with 500 meters left and Harry Parker's boys brought it home eight seconds ahead of the Bruins...
...final team scores, computed on the basis of a strange combination of match and medal play, showed Harvard slaughtering Tufts, 22-1, and beating Amherst, a team that had topped the Crimson last year, by a close, but comfortable 14-9 margin...
...Margin. The professional polls had clearly underestimated George Stanley McGovern, 49, child of the plains, minister's son, college-debate champion, World War II bomber pilot, former history professor, father of five and, according to Robert Kennedy, the "most decent man in the Senate." Decency and doggedness-traits that served him well when he first ran for Congress in 1956, traveling the dusty side roads for one-to-one meetings in farmhouses and general stores. Taken singly, the encounters were insignificant; taken together, they meant the margin of victory. Recalls Journalist Harl Andersen, who covered the campaign...
...commission may order an end to "pass-through" profits. At present, businessmen are allowed to pass along to customers not only their increases in costs, but also to tack on their standard profit margins. For example, if the price of steel used in a car goes up $ 10, an automaker can charge the customer an extra $10 plus the company's usual profit margin. The Price Commission could decide to restrict the increase to a flat $ 10. And it may tighten up or eliminate entirely the "term-limit" pricing rule under which a company can raise the cost...
...long run, the pact threatens to depose the dollar as the pre-eminent currency in international trade. Reason: Common Market moneys will still be able to fluctuate within the present band of 4½% against the dollar, even though the margin is halved with respect to each other. European importers and exporters will no doubt feel safer issuing invoices in one of their own currencies, which can fluctuate only half as much as the dollar. Even a spokesman for the East German government declared that his country is "no longer interested" in trade deals set in dollars. Multinational corporations will...