Go to Wall Street and tell long, confusing stories about how you are transforming H-P from a low-margin to a high-margin business.
This control that consumers have over prices has led some analysts to predict that e-commerce can at best only ever be a low-margin business, and at worst a no-margin business.
The company recreated itself from a low-margin, commodity-driven, regional oil refiner into a less-cyclical, higher-margin, global specialty chemicals company.
Missourians chose President Bush over John Kerry by a six-point margin in 2004 and picked Bush over Al Gore by a four-point margin in 2000.
That means he is turning his back on the kinds of large-scale seismic testing used to prospect for elephant fields--a high-margin business dominated by Schlumberger.
Its best hope is that the solar cell industry doesn't follow the curve of the dram market it is often compared with--a once high-margin technology that turned suddenly, brutally, into a low-profit commodity market.
That, says Mahendra Negi, chief financial officer of Trend Micro, a Tokyo-based computer-virus company, is bound to be a low-margin business, as all it really involves is translation from English into Japanese.
It's a low-margin but steady business: DTCC charges six-tenths of a cent per trade to net out purchases and sales.
Pfizer recently bought out the Exubera stake of co-developer Sanofi-Aventis, creating a higher-margin opportunity.
Shinkong and China Life rely much more on first-year premiums than Cathay and, since the first-year premium is such a low-margin business, it means lower profits.
Pfizer recently bought out the Exubera stake of co-developer Sanofi-Aventis (nyse: SNY - news - people ), creating a higher-margin opportunity.
Selling cars has become such a low-margin business that dealers see remote diagnostics as a way to keep customers coming back.
The new DX has -- by a good margin -- the best contrast ratio of all those devices.
That - by a substantial margin - is the best score for any police force in England and Wales.
It mirrors the election four years ago in which Akufo-Addo lost to John Atta Mills with a razor-thin margin after a runoff.
However, these branches deliver just 9% of Lloyds' profit - largely because what's being sold is in effect a low-margin mortgage bank, without the benefit of all the other higher margin loans and products that Lloyds also sells its millions of customers.
The run turned a one-point lead into a double-digit margin that was never threatened.
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H-P said then that Autonomy was key to its transformation into a higher-margin seller of software.
Whereas specialist products are a high-margin business, Mr Bastiaens thinks of Voice Express as more about building a brand and publicising the technology.
Indeed, it may end up as a negative-margin business: If history is any guide, some companies will be willing to sell at a loss to gain market share, and there will be investors willing to finance them, at least for a while.
But the cost will be steep: Wal-Mart's customers aren't the kind of big spenders who will splash out for a high-margin gaming rig.
Another piece of legislation introduced in the House would amend the state constitution to require future wildlife or natural resource-related initiatives to pass by a two-thirds margin, rather than by a simple majority.
That probably turns a comfortable 6-3 margin into a much tighter 5-4 one.
Searfoss targets Eastman Kodak for the stiff competition it confronts in a low-margin business.
If the free market works as advertised, this should end up as a low-margin business.
Eaten by Software A few issues ago, I speculated that professional services could be a high-margin trap.
Chemicals may be a low-margin game, but when you transform coal and other substances into liquid fuels there are huge chemical runoffs.
Amazon has grown rapidly, though it increasingly looks like a low-margin retailer without the stores, as YCharts pointed out earlier this year.
In the process it has transformed itself from a low-margin textile-manufacturing business into one that derived two-thirds of its revenues in 1997 from garments.
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