In addition, gross margin percentage on home sales improved over year-earlier levels on the back of an increase in average sales prices and lower valuation adjustments.
He is the first president since Wilson to win a second term with a reduced percentage margin.
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Obama carried the Catholic vote in last year's presidential election by a margin of nine percentage points, 54 to 45 percent.
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New Jersey voted solidly for Democrats in the 2000 presidential race, but a Quinnipiac University poll in May showed Kerry leading Bush in the state by a margin of 3 percentage points, 47 percent to 44 percent.
In Washington, which was considered this cycle's other toss-up race, Gov. Gregoire and GOP challenger Dino Rossi, a former state senator, restaged their 2004 contest that Gov. Gregoire won by 133 votes -- the closest percentage margin of any governor's race in U.S. history.
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What has been proven is that if you are one of the top spenders, innovation will impact gross margin (the percentage of revenue left over after subtracting the costs of materials, labor, manufacturing, and direct shipping, and after paying other expenses incurred in making the products or services sold).
In five of the cases, this was by a triple- or quadruple-digit percentage point margin!
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Gross margin was down eight percentage points from a year ago, to 56%.
Voters in the key battleground state have spoken and gave a decisive victory to Senator Hillary Clinton yesterday over Senator Barack Obama, a margin of about 10 percentage points.
On balance, firms that derive less than 10% of its sales through Wal-Mart averaged 39.1% in gross margin, or the percentage of profit realized before items like fixed costs and interest expense are considered.
Clinton stands at 31 percent, with Obama 1 percentage point behind, well within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
The GOP sample of 306 likely caucus participants had a margin of error of 6 percentage points.
The sample of 303 likely Democratic caucus voters has a margin of error of 6 percentage points.
The median of these test companies exceeded the market by a significant margin of more than 44 percentage points.
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The company still sees adjusted gross margin in the low 40s percentage range.
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The poll -- taken between October 19 and 22 -- has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Clinton's 1-point lead over Obama, 31 percent to 30 percent, is within the poll's margin of error of 5 percentage points.
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Mr Maduro won by a margin of 1.49 percentage points over Mr Capriles, according to official figures released by the electoral council.
Because the industry is so competitive, a few percentage points of margin expansion can lead to a huge increase in net income.
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George W. Bush carried the state in 2000 by just 537 votes, and carried the state by a wider five percentage-point margin in 2004.
Those questions had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Independents, by a 12-percentage-point margin, tab Bush as the likely winner.
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The poll of 1, 165 New York City voters, conducted by phone between Nov. 14 and 18, with a margin of error of three percentage points, asked who did the best job responding to the disaster.
Urban's gross margin has decreased 2.7 percentage points the past year, stunting earnings growth.
Gross margin has slipped 4.5 percentage points (to 17.6%) since 1999 and remains under pressure as the prices of components rise.
Intel has lifted its dividend 80% over that period, and gross margin has expanded by nearly 14 percentage points to an impressive 65%.
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The sampling error varied from question to question, but none had a margin of error exceeding 4.5 percentage points.
The survey, based on telephone interviews with 1, 001 adults conducted October 1-3, has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
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