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I think their operating margin could be down a half-percentage point through calendar 2007.

I think you'll see high-def DVDs come out a higher price point, ... I think we have an opportunity to win back a couple of bucks of (improved profit) margin on high-def DVDs.

I think the defense is playing hard. But still, our margin for error is not that great. There are still defensive breakdowns. In the second half, we don't guard a couple of screens, leave a guy and he hits a 3 at a critical time.

It is clear that Seagate continues to progress well towards providing newer higher margin drives in the CE and Mobile markets, ... As such, we continue to believe that Seagate can grow its top and bottom line profits.

I thought we might have struggled a bit more than we did. We've had a lot of games that have had that kind of margin at the end, so we ran some plays and tried a few things. I thought that worked quite well and we need to know we can do that against quality opposition.

I thought we learned our lesson last year at Michigan . We can't turn the ball over and expect to win. We're not that good. Our margin of error is not that high.

I think what took people by surprise was the margin of victory. Nobody foresaw that huge a sweep.

I think that the smaller banks are probably going to have more difficulties in the upcoming six-to-12 months simply because they have relied on loan growth to drive EPS growth to meet consensus expectations. And loan growth is not where you want to be. Bread-and-butter banking is not that great of a business. And you're also the ends in terms of margin pressure. The Fed has raised rates 175 basis points, which usually translates into a much more difficult margin environment. And I think that that is going to hurt the bank below the top 15 in market cap for the near term. I would say the larger-cap banks, once they get over the capital markets issues they're experiencing over the second quarter, should see a little bit more strength.

I think that it will mean that in order to keep our margin the same, we will have to pay a little more for each ticket and sell it for a little more. I think it will help with our out-of-state customers. And 90 percent of our business is from outside Wisconsin.

I think we're knocking on the door of a veto-proof margin in the Senate.

I think the share price will open unchanged or dip somewhat due to the fact that both the gross and operating margin were lower than expected.

It is a positive move. Investors almost hated the e-commerce business because a it was low margin operation, ... What they like about Internet media companies is they get 80-to-90 percent margins on advertising and sponsorships agreements. Why bring it down by selling something that has no margins?

I see an extremely promotional shopping environment. I've advised my retail clients to be super aggressive Thanksgiving weekend. Retailers don't want to do it from a margin perspective, but otherwise they won't see shoppers in stores. Consumers have less money to spend and they'll take their 'less money' elsewhere.

Our gross margin forecast is 38.3 percent. However, we think this could be lighter as the company has been aggressive on acquiring components that have been in shortage and is paying up to do so. If gross margins are lighter than our forecast, we would not view it negatively and not as a deterioration in the product line.

Panic selling seems to have started to calm down owing to progress in adjustments of huge long-margin positions and declines in margin calls.

Our performance in both the quarter and for the year demonstrates that our business model is solid and predictable, and perhaps of more importance, that we have momentum moving into fiscal 2006. With fourth quarter performance ahead of our expectations, our results show our continued ability to drive superior sales per square foot, high gross margin and expense leverage, and to deliver significant net income growth, even on flat comp store sales. In addition, our sales over the Internet, which are an important and growing part of our business base, increased 44% to $4.0 million in the quarter, and for the year contributed $8.7 million to our sales.

Our results were driven by a combination of strong top-line growth, continued expense control and improved gross margin performance that reflects the smallest decline we have seen in nearly three years,

Our solution provides a clear return on investment for TJX by identifying millions of dollars in previously undetected fraud risk. It enables The TJX Companies to reduce fraud and contribute to their bottom line. Not only is this a win-win for both of us, but for consumers as well. With margin pressures and stiff competition, shrinkage reduction is one of the few places that retailers can gain a competitive edge.

Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions and gross margin improvements,

Overall this is a high-quality set of results... and their handset margin of 25 percent is phenomenal.

Overall records are misleading, we are treating the PSAC West schedule as a new season and we are pushing for a PSAC playoff spot. We must execute better and our margin of error is very small right now.

Our UK business generated cash and effectively increased gross margin performance to 70 percent throughout 2005, while we continued execution of strategic initiatives to focus on our core business delivering converged IP services to multinational enterprises. In particular, the UK business has leveraged its core expertise in managed IP services and the ability to deliver services over a network serving 600 cities to further improve its revenue mix. Enterprise customers now account for 92 percent of revenues.

Our traditional wood businesses showed good strength during the first quarter growing both in margin and volume. This counteracted a more difficult U.S. export situation and helped us to achieve net income only slightly below last year.

Our balance sheet remains asset sensitive, which allowed us to benefit modestly from the rise in interest rates that produced a slight margin expansion throughout 2005.

Other than that we are very young. We graduated six seniors last year, so there is very little margin of error. But we have played eight of first 11 on the road, so I am not really concerned with the record right now.

Rising stars still outpace fallen angels globally, though the gap is narrower than in 2005, when the number of rising stars exceeded that of fallen angels by the biggest margin since 1997.

Rendell's winning margin is black. Take that away, and he's even.

Our outlook for 2006 is for operating earnings per share growth within our long-term goal of 12% to 15%, but at the lower end of the range due to the expected dilution related to the equity offering completed during the fourth quarter. We anticipate core loan growth will continue to be within our targeted range of 10% to 14%. Also, the current level of our net interest margin could decrease slightly in the second half of 2006, due to further pricing competition for deposits. Our outlook assumes a stable economic environment and continued strong credit quality.

Our margin for error is so small. I'm not sure we deserved to win.

Our margin for error is small. We are not more talented than any team we play against.

Our margin for error is not really large for any game. And against these guys, it is even smaller.

Our ongoing investments in people, technology and our brand may cause our profit margin for the second half of 1999 to move back towards the levels we've achieved in recent years.

Our middle of the lineup and our average with runners in scoring position just haven't been that good. We haven't given our pitching staff any margin for error yet, and that's been a little frustrating.

Oracle continues to be a margin expansion story and we expect that trend to continue this quarter. We expect the increased operating leverage to come in the form of lower sales and marketing expenses.

People involved in printing are looking for people to do more with their pictures than print 4x6 photos. Making calendars, greeting cards, etc. are another way to monetize images, with good profit margin opportunities.

Standard & Poor's does not expect major margin improvement in fiscal 2006 for the larger players. Even though commodity prices have stabilized, they remain at historical highs.

That being said, we are not satisfied with our recent performance and have responded by taking decisive actions to improve our results. We are implementing a comprehensive set of initiatives to drive revenues, maximize margin opportunities, further improve our operating efficiencies, cut costs and increase asset utilization. We expect this plan will help offset the continued revenue softness we are seeing and expect to continue to see in the near-term, and will contribute to the long-term success of the Company, which is our goal for stockholders, partners and associates alike.

My opinion is we're seeing market liquidations of many of the former high-flying Internet stocks, ... A lot of the stocks are down. Margin calls happen when stocks decline by more than 35 percent. And we're seeing more than 35-percent declines in many former high flyers.

Loan and deposit growth was strong across all markets. Total assets at year-end were $5.9 billion, a 15% increase from a year ago. Loans increased $144 million during the fourth quarter, or 14% on an annualized basis, and helped drive the increase in net interest revenue. Our net interest margin rose to 4.20%, up 15 basis points from a year ago and up three basis points from last quarter, as increasing short-term interest rates continued to positively affect our slightly asset-sensitive balance sheet. Fee revenue, excluding securities losses taken in the fourth quarter of 2005, was up 12%, reflecting increases in nearly every category.

Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.

Margins are much more of an issue than they were, but hopefully if they can get the growth, it should help offset any margin pressure they see.

Margin pressures were intense in the fourth quarter due to the weighting of video products in our sales mix as well as the highly promotional retail environment, ... These pressures will ease somewhat as the current video cycle matures,

Material costs have gone up. Maybe in the second half the margin has deteriorated a bit.

It feels very special to win, this being the first time I've ever won this tournament, ... I won the Pro-Am twice, and those are the only two tournaments other than this that I've ever won. So I was pretty nervous heading into the backside. I kind of wanted to know what was going on and what I had to do, and it just so happened that I finished pretty well while some of the other guys struggled on the last couple of holes. That's why the margin of victory was as much as it was. With two holes to play I only had a two-shot lead. So it was tight almost the whole way.

I think individual investors who trade on margin account for about 60 percent of the total using the Internet.

I think, for most of the people in Taiwan, a pretty substantial margin falls somewhere in the middle, and it'll remain that way for some time.

I thought it would be 50-50. I thought we'd have to win some close games. I didn't think we'd win by margin we did tonight. But we finally put in 32 minutes at both ends of the floor tonight.

It is cost prohibitive for GM to fix its $3,500 margin disadvantage versus Toyota and other Japan-based manufacturers. Meanwhile, hidden liabilities continue to exceed hidden assets.

It is definitely trial and error. I guess we went through the same process when the cable industry first appeared, and later on with the wireless industry, but you see the Internet has really matured a lot over the last two years and I guess the trial and error, or the art portion, of the analysis is really declining -- though there's still a margin for error.

Manufacturing is probably in a steady downtrend, and when you get cheap imports, it is a recipe for a bit of margin contraction.

We now have reported four consecutive quarters of gross margin improvement and achieved a significant milestone in reporting GAAP profitability for the fiscal third quarter.

The acquisition of Jungle Labs represents another meaningful step forward in our strategy of becoming a larger and more important supplier of specialty pet products. Jungle Labs has a strong track record of innovative product development and marketing in water and fish care and its line of products in this high growth, high margin niche complements our existing Tetra, Marineland, ASI and Perfecto aquatics product mix nicely. This acquisition will be a positive addition to Spectrum Brands' leading market share position in the global aquatics marketplace.

The, already well-known, relative absence of pipeline products in late stage development continues to blur the visibility of longer term margin trends and helps stifle our enthusiasm for the shares despite the upgraded near-term guidance.

I was pleasantly surprised. The four district championships we won before were by an average margin of 11 points. To win this one by 55 was something special.

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road, ... Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error.

Microsoft's move is a blow to all personal computer- related shares because it might weaken the companies' margin growth as new products usually have higher margins.

You can have a lot more leverage in this country in another way, and that is by determining the margin of victory between Democrats and Republicans. It's not a spoiler role, it's a leverage role.

Will the Fed keep raising rates until the yield curve's inverted? There's not much margin for error here,

While we saw an increase in the boxed-beef prices, which contributed to our increase in sales, at the same time, we're still looking at higher cattle prices. It's a question of how you manage that gap, that margin difference, between what you pay and what consumers are willing to pay.

Whirlpool has very strong market share and margin momentum headed into 2006. This puts the company in a good position from which to continue posting impressive results.

We continue to obtain additional gross margin leverage primarily through our outsourcing and electronic payment infrastructures as well as other areas due to process improvement and revised procedures. Also positively impacting our gross margins is the continued decrease in hardware revenues as a percentage of total revenue.

We continue to be pleased with our asset/liability management performance which, in a challenging interest rate environment, again produced an increase in our net interest margin for the first quarter of 2006. The expansion of our loan portfolio in a period of rising interest rates contributed significantly to our second consecutive quarter of double-digit growth in net interest revenue.

We continue to believe Fairchild is an early stage restructuring story with the most gross margin leverage in the group.

We continue to be concerned with the recent pattern of (the company's) estimate reductions, sales sluggishness in the core personal-care division, increasing margin pressures and deteriorating working capital trends.

We continue to balance investments in gross margin and improved customer service with operating cost reductions to provide a better shopping experience for our customers.

We do make a small margin on each track that's sold at the store. But because it's Coke, there isn't a requirement for the store to be generating a profit for the store to operate.

We expect Amazon, eBay and Expedia to continue to invest in technology and content in 2006 -- which could pose a near-term risk to 2006 street margin expectations.

We got down by a large margin pretty early on the road. It's kind of hard to get back in the game.

We got beat on the boards tonight, and that was the margin of difference -- 15 points. It looks worse than it really was. It was a pretty good game. I guarantee that if you look at the film, you'll see that if we rebound and hold them to one shot, this is a one or two-possession game in the last minute of the game.

We finally beat these guys up here. We had never been ahead by any margin like that after alternate shot and it would have been hard for a team to come back from such a dominating lead. I think we had a particularly strong team this year and matched up well. Our guys all played great.

We don't have a huge margin for error. We'd been doing good things because we were progressing, but I'd been telling them all week not to forget where they came from. This is not a team that's going to go blow people out.

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.

We're very pleased with our performance for the year, which marks another solid year for Sybase. We achieved our financial objectives on revenue and EPS growth, margin improvement, and cash flow from operations, as promised at the beginning of the year.

Usually, when you have a stock market mania, it's driven largely by individual investors borrowing money to buy stocks at prices that are too high. And usually, when a bubble becomes unwound, it's because of margin calls.

With the talent level we have right now, our margin of error is small. We can't get away with the same things we could have when our talent level was that much higher. We need to execute things better to make up for the talent we don't have.

We have an extra ten years to exploit this property. The Star Wars property is a high gross margin area. It generally requires less advertising because its the movie that drives interest in the merchandise.

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.

We can show that there are differences in the profiles of chemicals that come from the tissue, and these tissue profiles can be used to diagnose a particular disease or determine how far the disease has progressed. We reported in a previous paper, and it is highlighted in the current article, that there are differences in profiles of chemical species from the tissue, indicating a diseased area and also the margin at which that diseased area is separated from the non-diseased area of the tissue.

While we have made our earnings per share targets for the company, it was not achieved while hitting our gross margin targets,

We can beat you a lot of ways now. Last year, we didn't have any margin for error. This year, we're a balanced team, and the offense and defense are going to help each other out.

We made a statement. We won, that was the statement we wanted. Margin of victory, stuff like that, is nice. But winning and going to the playoffs is our goal. That's what we want.

The problem is Florida voters keep saying eight years, but the legislature is hearing 12 and 24 years. They're just not hearing the voters who cast their ballots by a solid 77% margin in favor of eight-year term limits, so we decided to help their hearing.

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.

We are in desperate need of immediate help. For most of us, the profit margin has become nonexistent.

We'll never know how effective it was. ... Sununu won by a bigger margin than anyone expected. But that's not the point. It was wrong. ... We have 400 (state) legislative races. The intent may have been to influence one election, but it may have affected hundreds of races.

We were just a little too casual. Just a little too casual on defense, not quite boxing out enough, not quite challenging the shooter. And the other teams were taking advantage of it. We have the talent to play with these teams, but when we don't bring our best it's not like we have a big margin for error. We just came back and took care of the little things.

Turnover margin has been our No. 1 emphasis since I've been at USC. We feel that as you keep it going, you're going to be hard to beat.

We remain committed to our gross margin improvement goals that have us reaching 30 percent in 2006 and mid-30 percent in 2007. Our focus in 2006 is on improving our product mix, delivering more new leadership analog and integrated power products while reducing our exposure to lower margin standard products.

The poll margin is enormous. Virginia Tech would have to be two spots ahead of Texas in the computers to get close. They need to hope those poll margins erode.

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

The overall decline in our boys' business hurt toys' profitability because that is a high margin business for us,

We are not done with that journey. Right now, this thing wasn't about week to week, it was about finishing the deal. And we started seven weeks ago and this is the eighth game. We had no margin of error, but it will be a constant reminder.

When you're missing people, your margin of error becomes much smaller. You have to execute things a lot better. We had a lot of turnovers in the first half that really cost us and opened up the game for them.

We played well at times, but our margin for error is so small.

We know we cannot stop all ticket reselling, but if we can redirect some of that unauthorized margin to a good cause like the Innocence Project, it makes me feel like we have done something worthwhile.

We still have widening interest rate spreads ... so the dollar looks good and today's data at the margin just keeps inflationary concerns bubbling.

We still control our own destiny. It's just that our margin of error is lessened. If we go 3?0, there are no ifs, ands or buts.

We are continuing to have discussions regarding a sale of the business and remain hopeful that a sale can be achieved that will see a leaner and more sustainable business emerging, based on fast turnaround, lower volume and higher margin business.

We actually widened our margin with Kane on the bench and that's a big indicator of some players wanting to step up.

We're a team that there's very little margin for error. The last couple of games we've played clean baseball.