All we need are the right small moves on the margin to produce Archimedean change, and presto we can grow up and grow out from under our addiction to government without even so much as a minor chill or a stomach pain of withdrawal.
China will "endeavor" to cut emissions of carbon dioxide -- the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change -- by "a notable margin" in coming years, Hu said, adding that China also will "vigorously develop renewable energy and nuclear energy" with the goal of increasing the share of non-fossil fuels in total energy consumption to 15 percent by 2020.
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Instead, the solution has to be fundamental change, not people doing bits and pieces at the margin.
Despite Clinton's 10 percent margin of victory, the delegate math may not change much for her.
As China buys more euros, yen and pounds, and less dollars, on the margin, the relative value of those currencies will change.
Then, an alliance of conservatives and liberals for different reasons opposed change and defeated the constitutional amendment by a two-to-one margin.
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Dixons conceded that its profit margins had been squeezed during the reporting period, but attributed this to a change in the mix of products that customers were buying - with low-margin tablet computers selling particularly well - rather than rising costs or price discounts.
Perhaps they see a low-growth, low-margin company that, for all its calisthenics, is really too big to change much.
And they are completely correct in saying that because "most projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change are marginal increases on already huge losses, " applying adaptation only to that narrow margin makes no sense.
While your oil is changed, the sales associates will offer to change your air filter, perform a transmission fluid change and do a variety of other more profitable services in the hopes of increasing the profit margin.
Margin debt, a seldom-referenced indicator of confidence and speculation has contracted on a yearly percentage change as much as in the bear markets of '74, '82, '87 and '01.
Peers now have to decide whether they want to press the change - there was a majority of 21 votes against the government, which may not be a big enough margin to embolden them to have another go.
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