Sarkozy cozied up to the far right to win votes but he ended up scaring off the center and losing the election by a larger margin.

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But he said most in the past have ended as one did this week near Glens Falls, losing by a 4:1 margin in a vote of the residents.

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First, the margin between winning and losing can be infinitesimal.

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In short, if the Nokia expert is right about the low labor cost component in its products, Apple could easily raise its prices to pay those Foxconn workers a higher wage without losing market share or its gross margin.

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And that way, Apple could maintain its 70% gross margin with little risk of losing sales at that slightly higher price.

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They know that many products have a large contribution margin, and there is lots of room to compromise to keep from losing a sale.

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As opinion polls showed the Democrats losing favor with women, a favored constituency that backed Obama in2008 by a 13 percent margin, the administration went into emergency flack mode: We did, it said, lots of things for women.

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The fact -- the notion that we are now where we are losing -- in November we had positive job growth, but we're getting much closer to the margin of zero -- that's a fact.

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