Word: margins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question is what sort of an impact the banking sector's problems and the cascading margin calls on stock-market investors will have on the Russian economy as a whole. In such volatile times, it's particularly hazardous to make any predictions. But Russia experts say that, for the moment at least, they don't expect the troubles to blow up into a huge national economic crisis like the one of a decade ago, when the ruble collapsed and the economy contracted sharply. If anything, there will be a welcome cooling off in the economy, which has been...
...Colorado, where the Democrats held their convention, Obama now enjoys the support of registered voters by a 51% to 45% margin; in late August McCain led that group by a difference of 49% to 44%. Among likely voters in the state, which TIME/CNN polled for the first time as part of this series of battleground polls, Obama leads...
...show results that largely reflect their red-blue leanings of the 2004 election. Obama has expanded his late August four-point lead in Pennsylvania up to 52% to 43% among registered voters. He also currently leads among likely voters in the Keystone State by a healthy nine point margin...
...Colorado, 932 registered voters and 794 likely voters were surveyed, 966 registered voters and 755 likely voters in Michigan, 903 registered voters and 737 likely voters in Montana, 920 registered voters and 730 likely voters in Pennsylvania, and 876 registered voters and 694 likely voters in West Virginia. The margin of error for "likely voters" in all states was 3.5% plus or minus. The margin of error for the sample of "registered voters" was 3% plus or minus, except in the case of Montana and West Virginia, which were 3.5% plus or minus...
...Livni, 50, an earnest, straight-talking former lawyer, defeated her closest rival, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, an ex-general, by a 1.1% margin. Livni won 43.1% of the vote compared with Mofaz's 42%. It was so close that some Mofaz stalwarts are insisting on a recount. Voter turnout in the Kadima primaries was also so low that Israeli newspaper Haaretz noted acidly that 10 times as many Israelis turned out to cast their ballots for the country's version of American Idol as to pick the candidate likely to become the next premier...