E*Trade's strategy is to make money on the margin balances, and the larger the balance, the more desirable the account is.
Larry Tabb
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If the maximum were making even moderate increases, all these people on the margin wouldn't fall out of the program.
Sarah Flanagan
Oil services firms really can't control revenues. We look for margin improvement.
James Wicklund
The bottom line EPS (earnings per share) beat estimates by a significant margin, although revenues were a tad light.
Chris Whitmore
A system with proper margin and maintenance should not have this bad luck. The mayor is absolutely right. I'm at least as angry as he is.
John W. Rowe
The overall decline in our boys' business hurt toys' profitability because that is a high margin business for us.
Alfred Verrecchia
Our defense businesses are hitting on all cylinders, having consistently met or exceeded targets for revenue, cash and margin.
Daniel P. Burnham
We played well at times, but our margin for error is so small.
Steve Pikiell
I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.
Pierre De Fermat
Too many mistakes against a team like that. There's no margin for error.
Dave Chanley
We like the program but think gross margin driven upside will be hard to sustain.
Danielle Fox
If we're not going to take [them] on until February 2007, we're going to burn up the margin for error in getting things done.
Martin Franks
We were playing with a really small margin of error for the longest time and one little non-perfect hockey game really set us back. It's a game of inches and a couple games ago we lost a foot.
Steve Montador
We're happy that the margin is just outside the margin of error and we expect this to be a spirited campaign over the next 27 days.
Bob Paduchik
The big negative is their retail franchise was weak, hurt by contracting net interest margin.
Steve Roukis
We expect the acquisition would enable Red Hat to continue to report robust revenue growth, however we believe it would slow Red Hat's margin expansion.
Gary Mcdaniel
Sales results were good in many low-margin, non-wireless categories; however, we experienced lower sales in high-margin categories. In addition, wireless sales and profits were below our expectations.
Dave Edmondson
For a challenger to be within the margin of error before he even spends a dime on advertising statewide is just fantastic news for us.
Mark Graul
The conservative majority should win the election but the margin is very narrow.
Roland Cayrol
The results are better-than-expected and the increase of the sales and margin target is also positive.
Patrick Roquas
It's one of the lower-margin businesses they have, when you compare to aerospace or other divisions.
Peter Klein
We're a team that there's very little margin for error. The last couple of games we've played clean baseball.
Joe Jordano
Generally, what we try to do if we have a game where we have to play for 32 minutes is try to wear them down by playing full court. But if we get ahead by a good margin, then we'll call off the dogs.
Jason Asbell
We don't expect any nasty surprises. The petrochemical margin was significantly better.
Andreas Heine
ISPs can sell bandwidth to us at a 100 percent margin.
Tom Herman
We are ahead of our gross margin goals and we are continuing in the same direction.
Brian L. Halla
Its wholesalers are clamoring for high-margin, growth brands. Anheuser has promised to deliver them, but they can't just create them.
Benj Steinman
The bank business we get is very good business. Would I like it to a be a higher-margin business? I'd like everything to be a higher-margin business.
Bill Holland
We haven't got 19 medal chances, like we have had before. There is no margin for error. Everyone who is expected to win a medal must if the target of six is to be met.
Peter Matthews
With a 13-event format, there's little margin for error. We need more front-end, easy speed, and we need more lively arms in the water. We looked too heavy last week.
Bill Dorenkott
I'm always surprised at how close these matches are and how thin the winning and losing margin is.
Dennis Emery
We could have scored more - we should have. We should have taken a lot more of our chances and won by a bigger margin but I'm happy to get the two goals.
Wayne Rooney
The gross margin expansion is really coming through from switch from urinary to recombinant products. It bodes well for 2001.
Andrew Fellows
There is not a national energy crisis, there is a tight reserve margin which we are addressing.
Alec Erwin
The interesting thing there, though, is that they did cut back on sales of lower margin phones. That helped them get the higher operating margin, but it did cost them some revenue.
Pete Peterson
This combination helps to further diversify our balance sheet and earnings by adding attractive, high-yielding credit card assets, while improving our net interest margin and adding stable fee income.
Kerry Killinger
The margin growth wasn't bad.
Jerome Schupp
They have outperformed expectations, despite a really bad sports betting margin, and that highlights the benefits of a diversified model.
Robin Chhabra
At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance.
David Abella
The reason we've always had hope for Van and still do is he fits in that slim margin of cases where there's room for flexibility.
Julian Mcmahon
There's a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasn't a lot of fun.
Lance Berkman
You are not going to get margin expansion like you have in prior years by the look of things. The biggest concern is the cost pressure and the recovery of the cost pressure.
David Cooke
We just don't have a lot of people who can score with the basketball and we've struggled to get that done. Our margin for error is not great.
Kelly Graves
For the balance of fiscal 2001, we are focusing on moderate top line sales growth with a very keen focus on gross margin enhancement and expense reduction.
Leonard Roberts
This is a low-margin industry, and while IT has always created a competitive advantage on the engineering side, on the building side, we are only recently seeing the benefits from large investments in IT.
James House
There's a margin of error here.
Russell Klein
There is going to be no room for margin of error in terms of flying again if there is not a high level of confidence that the problems we know about are solved.
Bart Gordon
Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
H. R. Haweis
I'm a little surprised and very satisfied about (the margin of victory).
Ai Miyazato
We're an ROI, margin-driven company. We like to listen to franchisee input because they're in the business every day.
Jim Abrahamson
The margin is very marginal.
Bobby Robson
We had a record number of margin calls over the weekend.
Blake Darcy
It's a better product for us because it's a higher margin.
Pat Shannon
Prescriptions going to consumers is like money going to consumers. The margin for error is zero.
Linda Pinney
I was really surprised by the margin.
Jonathan Wyatt
The game was over, it was going to be a commodity product. And here, even in sort of this extremely price-competitive environment, they managed to improve their gross margin.
Daniel Kunstler
There's a big margin there. If that sauce or spread has 6 grams of fat per couple of tablespoons, but 5 grams are saturated, it's not the best choice.
Jenny Gardner
With this EBITDA margin we have once again set a profitability benchmark in our industry.
Mike Heinz
This could mean challenges for some companies; they might see margin contraction.
Tim Albrecht
He has won very convincingly. The president is going to lead Uganda with a very comfortable margin.
Ofwono Opondo
We're still comfortable with our current guidance of at least 20 percent revenue growth and a net margin of around 8 percent.
Ned Barnholt
The portfolio is older, but it is well-located. A more aggressive operator could come in and earn a little bit more at the margin.
Richard Anderson
Maintenance out-shadowed safety by a large margin.
Michael Coleman
Right now, we are showing very little-to-nil margin on making the range necessary to get to Kent. It is a big concern.
Jon Karkow
I believe that whoever wins an an election, even by a close margin, has a right and a duty to govern.
Massimo D'alema
At halftime, we just talked about getting after it on defense, so that we could widen the margin.
Kyle Loomis
We view the agreement as a milestone deal, giving the company global rights to an attractive portfolio of high-margin, entertainment-based content.
Anthony Gikas
The unions are fighting against their own decline. Their margin of movement is decreasing. It will be a tough battle.
Klaus Zimmermann
The important fact is they're a first mover in a high-margin business that will have increased adoption rates as we move forward.
Anthony Noto
New car lending is not a high-margin business. The net margin is usually less than 1 percent.
Christopher Wolfe
The insurance margin was at the lower end of expectations.
Peter Vann
The fact they've turned a low margin operation into a good margin operation demonstrates to me that there is expertise there and gives me some confidence in their New Zealand purchase.
Craig Shepherd
As we continue to use more gasoline in California, that margin of error gets tighter each year.
Rob Schlichting
They have under-achieved on sales but over-achieved on gross margin gains.
Tony Shiret
It's very high margin. And Yahoo! just sits and waits for the checks.
Martin Pyykkonen
I think their operating margin could be down a half-percentage point through calendar 2007.
Stephen East
This margin of safety was incredibly low.
Robert Bea
Australia's interest-rate margin will be maintained. The risk-reward for the Australian dollar is the upside.
Adrian Foster
Our 3 percent increase in net income was driven by strong loan growth, an improved net interest margin and controlled growth of non-interest expense.
Robert Griswold
These contracts are ostensibly very high margin, so it is fairly positive.
Farooq Hanif
Rendell's winning margin is black. Take that away, and he's even.
Steve Ward
Certain amounts of lead are certainly emitted, but there are safe levels of that and there are un-safe levels. Around the plant is safe with a significant margin of safety. It's not even close.
Drew Goddard
We're trying to find exploration and production companies with production growth, but production growth that they can generate at a cost that's less than the price of the commodity. Then you get revenue growth and margin growth.
David Kiefer
We want to be satisfied the plant's safety margin is not compromised.
David O'brien
The Asian currency rally has arrived, ... most Asian currencies should appreciate by a much larger margin against the dollar than other currencies.
James Mccormick
The president should be worried. With 55 percent, if there's is a margin of error of 4 percent, he could actually have only 51 percent.
Horacio Serpa
We were pretty confident, because we knew we were ahead by a large margin. We didn't feel like there were a lot of teams capable of beating us.
Thomas Gallagher
Mr. Oken may have lost some credibility with analysts when the bank's net interest margin dropped dramatically.
Richard Bove
The big standout was US cards -- weak even excluding the charge, due to margin compression and a big drop in receivables.
Glenn Schorr
Right now, we do not have a large margin for error, ... Unforced errors are unacceptable.
Ted Jackson
Been keeping my normal profit margin.
Bill Elliott
The margin of error is only 10 percent, so they are clearly brown dwarfs. It's Physics 101.
Keivan Stassun
The most important thing is to get Mercedes on a very good margin level.
Jürgen Pieper
Manufacturing is probably in a steady downtrend, and when you get cheap imports, it is a recipe for a bit of margin contraction.
Peter Chilton
Things can go very wrong with a margin loan.
Sue Stevens
Only about one per cent of the appeals was not resolved in the way we would have wanted. But under normal circumstances there is a margin of error of 3.5 per cent, so we have done well.
Maureen Webber
An exchange rate below 10.60 gives the central bank margin to cut interest rates by 50 basis points.
Manuel Torres
Our broad revenue growth and expanding net interest margin indicate that the momentum we carried into this year is continuing to build.
Dowd Ritter
It's good for Compaq at the margin, because it helps them fill out their product line, and it is good for IBM at the margin because it helps them to sell storage.
Andrew Neff
I think we're knocking on the door of a veto-proof margin in the Senate.
Sean Tipton
It can only be stopped for a couple of hours in the middle of the night. So we have to work very fast, and with no margin of error.
Melvyn Lee
We have a very small margin of error. We have to work on the things we can control, and we can control poor foul shooting.
Brian Meehan
It was a very good performance. The mix is different to last time, but the profit margin should have improved slightly.
Youssef Ziai
This was ratified by a 3-to-1 margin.
Brian Rainville
In theory this is useful but in practice I would not expect more than changes at the margin.
Daniel Gros
With Network Solutions now neatly in the fold, we believe we exited Q3 as the leading infrastructure services company on the Internet by a wide margin.
Stratton Sclavos
We're here to protest the budget. We don't have a margin that can support those kinds of cuts.
Maggie Barnes
We've got some improvements to make. We've got some kids who can certainly play, there's no doubt about that. We just don't have a lot of margin for error against championship teams.
Jeff Vanderloo
The margin degradation that a lot of folks had been concerned about really wasn't as bad as people had thought. Overall, things look very good.
Phil Rueppel
The margin is less than what it was, but you do not have an imminent problem of meeting your obligations.
Dale Timmermann
The competition in New Zealand is very, very intense, so we've seen a fair bit of margin compression and also the quality of its book in New Zealand has actually deteriorated as well.
Paul Xiradis
We kind of felt with the people we had coming back that if we just came out and kept getting better and better, we'd have a chance to be pretty good. But never did we dream we'd win by this margin against them.
Brian Cross
I don't think it would be devastating for economic activity. I think it might, on the margin, inhibit it some.
Gary Stern
I don't think we had any margin of error, the way these guys were playing.
Manny Lawson
We got down by a large margin pretty early on the road. It's kind of hard to get back in the game.
Curtis Jerrells
A 31-point gap's a pretty good margin. You have to have an awful lot of things fall your way.
Tim Ritchie
We went in and we squeezed on that excessive margin.
Don Beverlin
The scenario right now is that either we win by a narrow margin or they win by a narrow margin.
Fabrizio Cicchitto
I don't want to be saying we nearly won again, because the margin of defeat does not matter.
David Gray
I'm sure that was among the factors that changed the margin in this.
Clay F. Richards
I would be very disappointed if we don't finish top of the overall medal table, and by a comfortable margin.
Max Binnington
IES is a company whose cash flow is and continues to remain extremely strong. And the margin on our work increased during the last eight months, and that was without a great deal of bonding help.
Byron Snyder
While our operating margin is an indicator, we believe the total margin is most indicative of the financial strength of a hospital. The total margin is the bottom line.
Bill Leonard
Shared services is probably the least attractive. Managed services are the highest margin data service centers.
Anthony Ferrugia
At the margin, we remain a holder of Microsoft shares, not an aggressive buyer.
Dean Stanley
A lot of the bear case about Sun is that they'd never be able to recoup their gross margin.
Daniel Kunstler
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