The adult white-eyed river martin is a medium-sized swallow, with mainly glossy greenish-black plumage, a white rump, and a tail which has two elongated slender central tail feathers, each widening to a racket-shape at the tip.
Gross margin, or the amount of profit on each sale, widened to 65.4percentt from 62.1percentt as the company cut production costs.
Gross margin, or the amount of profit made on each sale, widened to 30.4percentt of sales, from 29.8percentt a year earlier, the company said.
This opened up cracks that widened each and every morning the air conditioners clicked on and vibrated to life over the next two years.
The spreads between the federal funds rate and the prices charged by banks to borrow from each other have widened dramatically since early November (see chart).
Revealingly, the gap between London's total carbon-reduction targets and actual reductions between 2006-10 has widened each year, and significantly faster after Boris entered office in 2008, when the carbon gap was 2.1m tonnes.
Mandy and I looked at each other, eyes widened.
A small circular opening appears, and each contraction widens it, like a tight shirt being pulled over a child's head.
At first, we simply went to the squatter camp where he was killed and questioned those living nearby, each day widening the arc of our meander.
In 1967, Dr. Foege asked him to lead the smallpox effort in Sierra Leone, which then had the world's highest case rate, and test a new strategy: Instead of trying to vaccinate the whole country, teams would race to new outbreaks, vaccinating around each in widening circles until it died out.
