Word: margined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans have already won. "Usually at the end of these campaigns, the party with the most money wins," conceded President Clinton on the fund-raising trail. That means the GOP ? and though it's traditional for Democrats to be outspent, the margin this year was huge. The RNC plowed millions of dollars in soft (and extremely quiet) money into the big races: governorships in New Jersey and Virginia; a House seat in Staten Island...
East Asia is a hot-money area. Speculators move in and out of it with swashbuckling abandon. As in any once volcanic, now cold-as-ice market, when the selling gets to be so great, the leveraged speculators have to raise capital to meet margin calls on stocks they bought on credit. This week the in-hock guys with the worst balance sheets liquidated, and markets worldwide got banged...
...guys. When markets started to go against them, these types often doubled down. When the markets continued to go against them, as happened in Hong Kong last week, they borrowed even more. And when the selling persisted, I would get a cheerless call from John, my brokerage group's margin clerk. He would say, "Your client has until 2 p.m. to get enough money on to meet his margin call before we sell him out." I would then call the ne'er-do-well and urge him to send any collateral he had. Sometimes he sent stocks, and I would...
...poll of 305 registered voters had a margin of error of 5.6 percent...
Declining issues also outnumbered advancers by an astounding 16-to-1 margin on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 685.50 million shares, the busiest day ever in the exchange's history...