Word: margins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...keeping the Big Red scoreless in the final three innings. “She has been outstanding in relief for us,” Allard said.The Crimson batters then went to work narrowing the gap. In the top of the fourth Harvard put up three runs to cut the margin in half. Freshmen Caitlin Bowers knocked an RBI double to center field and senior Danielle Kerper drove in two more runs with a two-out homer. The Crimson scored two more times in the fifth and pulled within one of the home team. The runs came from a Macadam homerun...
...China. The popularity of flavors like Chocolate Ecstasy and Green Tea has helped the company build 43 outlets in the People's Republic in two and a half years. But a 19% tariff on imported ice cream takes a giant lick out of the profits. "It's an awful margin that just goes to the Chinese government rather than allowing us to make a better return," says CEO Shane Lamont. When 150 New Zealand trade officials and businessmen take off for Beijing this weekend, Lamont's hopes of seeing an end to that tariff will fly with them...
...strength of those initiatives, Melfi was re-elected in 2006 by a 15 percentage point margin over his closest rival. Talk to the locals and you hear the rare sound of southerners pleased with the direction in which their town is headed. One morning in March, Pasquale Salandria, taking a break from his work on a city clean-up crew, gestures toward two new seaside cafés and a disco. "Ten years ago there was almost nothing here," he says. Indeed, the town of 3,000 now seems to strike a nice balance between dynamism and coastal pleasantness, favoring...
...assume Taiwan’s top executive office in the wake of his victory in the country’s recent presidential elections. Ma, a 1981 HLS alumnus and the former mayor of Taipei City, won Taiwan’s March 22 election by a 17 percent margin. His party, considered more favorable to a rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) than the rival Democratic Progressive Party, will face challenges in reestablishing relations with the Mainland. HLS professor and Director of East Asian Legal Studies William P. Alford, who met Ma when the two were...
...Rendell won the governor's job in 2002 on an electoral strategy that looked far more like Obama's than Clinton's. In the Democratic primary, he carried only 10 of the state's 67 counties but racked up huge margins in Philadelphia and its relatively liberal suburbs. That was enough to beat Bob Casey Jr.-the party establishment's pick in the primary for the job and now a Senator-by a hefty 14-point margin...