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Cuomo was saved by winning by a huge margin in New York City, and by somewhat smaller margins in other cities (Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Binghamton) and college towns.

We know there will be small margins in these games and we have to be sure that every small margin goes for us.»

Arlington Heights: Election day also marked the passing of an era in the largest northwest suburb, where an attorney was ahead by a small margin in a three - way race for the mayor «s seat, vacated after 14 years in the firm grasp of retiring Mayor James Ryan.

Democratic Assemblywoman Addie Russell won by the smallest margin in the state two years ago, defeating former Cape Vincent councilman John Byrne by 95 votes.

The vRS out powers the Volkswagen Golf by a small margin in terms of top speed.

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Millennial small business owners have more confidence in their retirement savings than baby boomers, according to our survey, possibly because millennial owners started their business at a younger age on average (26 vs. 43 years old), allowing more time for them to grow their businesses» profit margins and create comfortable retirement plans.

Rotem's sales pitch is that while owners may lose a small margin on sales, the new customers that come in should more than make up for it.

Small - business owners chose Donald Trump as the candidate who would best address their needs by a significant margin: 44.36 percent, as compared to Hillary Clinton in second place at 16.39 percent.

Smaller financial technology companies can be flexible in crafting creative solutions to serve customers on the margins, said Lisa McFarland, an executive vice president at Ingo Money, which charges between 1 and 4 percent to deposit paychecks through a mobile app.

Osteryoung suggests that you look for resources in your industry, such as the annual statement studies on small and mid-sized business financial benchmarks from Risk Management Associates, to help you determine whether your profit margin is on target.

Small - company performance is strong so far in 2017, with increases in the first three months of 10.4 percent in net profit margin (compared with 8.5 percent for this period in 2016); 11.9 percent in sales (compared with 7.1 percent in 2016); and 15.6 percent in the EBITDA margin (compared with 14.3 percent in 2016).

«The world is telling us that our energy is more valuable than it used to be, and it's telling us to invest more in that and less in areas that are highly exchange - rate dependent with small margins,» Poloz said in the late summer of 2014, when I interviewed him for The Globe and Mail.

Ted Mallett, VP and chief economist at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, says the difference for common household goods like detergent and diapers is largely due to the fact that retailers need higher margins in the smaller Canadian market; there are no tariffs on most items like these.

In an effort to grow revenue and profits amid margin - crimping cost increases, American and its rivals are segmenting their cabins into smaller classes of service, including no - frills basic economy and premium economy, which offers a larger seat, more leg room and an amenities kit for a higher fare.

Intense competition among small to medium - sized builders is resulting in competitive tenders and tight margins.

As a result, you may see a small increase in refining margins for those refiners with firm shipping capacity on Energy East, along with a decrease in refining margins for in - land refineries in Alberta.

Falling fees and rising costs are putting pressure on margins, especially for the smallest (less than $ 100 billion in AUM) managers.

Sure there are funds that add in commodities, currencies and private equity, but the margin for error becomes that much smaller in a low return environment.

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It's true that the largest of the large - cap stocks are less overvalued today than in 2000, but even on a capitalization - weighted basis, the difference is far smaller than one might think once profit margins are taken into account.

That's why we hold over 200 individual investment positions in Strategic Growth, why we diversify across industries, why I left complete put option coverage underneath the Fund's portfolio even in response to a favorable shift in our measures of market action two weeks ago (now neutral), why the dollar value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and why even in the most favorable conditions, the Fund can establish leverage only by investing a small percentage of assets in call options (never on margin).

Some early - stage companies might have a high valuation when you look at their relatively small asset and revenue base because they have the potential to grow very quickly or there are high margins in their business.

Given 85 per cent of Caltex earnings are from fuel - related sales and refining margins, «even the smallest level of electric vehicle penetration would have a material impact on earnings,» the fund wrote on its website in October.

However, we expect smaller funds to outperform by an even wider margin in the decade ahead owing to the dramatic reduction in competition.

Historically, smaller venture capital funds have outperformed, and the survivors of the current shakeout are likely to outperform by an even wider margin in the coming decade due to reduced competition.

So when I recommend precious metals, I do so not because I make a small margin on bullion sales, but because I believe that they should be in your portfolio.

We invest in small and medium - scale companies with growth potential to jointly achieve institutionalization, high levels of growth, leadership positions in the market and improve margin efficiencies

Overall, we believe our economic forecasts indicate meaningful top - line growth for small - and mid-cap equities, and tax reform should significantly boost profit margins in these two asset classes this year.

However, the ability for small entrants to compete at the margins is waning, and consumers (even those in B2B) are rapidly changing their expectations and preferences.

It is also a function of the stage of much of our careers where we aren't interested in playing small ball with incrementalism on how to squeeze out an extra 5 % of margin by optimizing the Internet slightly better.

The small part of Amazon's business produces relatively high margins, so Amazon is going to invest in growing the segment.

After accounting for differences in risk, demographic and trading characteristics, self - directed investors outperform advised investors by a small margin.

You're right that the margin of safety is so much smaller in bonds because the yield won't be there to pick up the slack.

Measured across all loan products, and taking into account changes in customer risk margins, however, it seems that interest rates paid on average by small businesses have increased by a little less than the rise in interest rates directly due to the tightening of monetary policy.

The world is changing at whirlwind pace for the securities services industry, forcing small and large providers alike to reassess their approaches in light of new regulations, disruptive technology, rising costs and thinning margins.

This modestly exceeds the yield available on a 10 - year Treasury, but by a small margin that - outside the late 1990's bubble period - has previously been seen only during the two - year period approaching the 1929 peak, between 1968 - 1972 (which was finally cleared by the 73 - 74 market plunge), and briefly in 1987, before the crash of that year.

Since you can control large amounts of a commodity with a relatively small amount of money on margin, you can leverage your portfolio to take advantage of price swings in the commodity without having to actually take delivery of thousands of gallons of gasoline — something that is impractical for everyone other than institutions (such as refiners, airlines, transportation fleets, gasoline retailers, etc.).

Whether you intend starting a small daily catering business or you aim to offer huge extravaganzas for a large number of people once a year, then you probably want to consider pursuing your dreams in the food industry because the potential profit margin in the catering business is extremely high.

With 28 - year - old Genevieve Lacasse in her prime, and up - and - coming 23 - year - old Ann - Renee Desbiens ready for their opportunities, Szabados has a small margin of error in the group stage when Canada faces the other three teams in the world's top four.

The former effect reflects the narrowing of margins on housing and small business loans: the rate on standard variable rate housing loans has fallen by 1.3 percentage points more than the cash rate since mid 1996; in 1998, the average variable - rate on small business loans has fallen by 0.7 of a percentage point relative to the cash rate.

Banks» margins on small business lending, which have narrowed since mid 1997, might narrow further in figures for the June quarter and beyond as recent reductions in indicator rates begin to affect the figures.

He suggests that the tech world is focused on high margin, low volume businesses in which companies fight it out to win over customers and sell high margin software or hardware to a relatively smaller numbers of customers.

On the margin, however, the quantity of new commodity money entering such systems will be small compared to the total supply of the commodity in any given period of time.

While this can separate some churches too much from society, it can also assist the small church in living on the margins of society, where opportunity for mission knocks.

To become a church in mission St. Andrew had to let go of clericalism and convert the members into ministers; let go of the myth of size and develop a vision of what a small church can do; move beyond «coffee fellowship» in its conception of worship and food; and leave behind traditional notions of church in order to focus on the congregation's mission on the margins.

Obama's margin of victory was much smaller than in 2008 when he defeated John McCain by a 53 % to 46 % margin, and he lost ground among white evangelical Protestants and white Catholics.

As Churchill later wrote in The Second World War, «The odds were great; our margins, small; the stakes, infinite.»

In such societies, this picture of what it is to understand God tends to be best sustained in relatively small Christian communities that can retain a degree of communal identity in the midst of these social changes without moving to the margins of social turmoil and withdrawing from active participation in the reformist or revolutionary movements that cause the changeIn such societies, this picture of what it is to understand God tends to be best sustained in relatively small Christian communities that can retain a degree of communal identity in the midst of these social changes without moving to the margins of social turmoil and withdrawing from active participation in the reformist or revolutionary movements that cause the changein relatively small Christian communities that can retain a degree of communal identity in the midst of these social changes without moving to the margins of social turmoil and withdrawing from active participation in the reformist or revolutionary movements that cause the changein the midst of these social changes without moving to the margins of social turmoil and withdrawing from active participation in the reformist or revolutionary movements that cause the changein the reformist or revolutionary movements that cause the changes.

Meanwhile, those on the margins are typically working with less power, smaller platforms, thinner finances, and fewer numbers and in the face of subtle but pervasive stereotypes, prejudices, and disadvantages that make it nearly impossible to advocate for change without causing friction.

That said, I've always found this recipe to be very forgiving, and would not have anticipated that a small margin difference in egg size or flour weight would have messed it up, but you never know...