The dog and soda combination produces a dollar in margin.

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But the top exec maintained that the figures add up to a mere pittance: 7.7% profit margin for every dollar of sales.

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Winners outnumbered losers by a wide margin, but the dollar stores were among the groups in the red.

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It is because a stronger dollar signals more investment on the margin flowing into the stock and bond income streams set to create the wealth of tomorrow.

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However, possible commodity inflation and the rising value of Dollar vis-a-vis Euro may pose profit margin and pricing challenges for Heinz in future year.

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The basic idea is that yes, Apple is superb at making high end, high margin, products that people are willing to pay top dollar for.

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This will, at the margin, trigger trade adjustments similar to the effect of a dollar decline.

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The weak dollar has rendered American labour more competitive, but not enough to rejuvenate low-margin, labour-intensive manufacturing in industries such as textiles, furniture or paper products.

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The squeezing revenue margin (revenue earned by the online travel agency as a percentage of the dollar size of bookings) has been widely accepted as the fate of this industry going forward.

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