"I would imagine a majority of Americans, probably by a wide margin, think that the system is somehow out of whack," he said.
Damian Brewer, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said: "If it is in line with other recent direct awards, we think that margin is likely to be around 3%." Virgin said the government would also benefit from higher payments from increased fare revenues, if economic growth matches expectations.
"For a standard that's supposed to protect health with an 'adequate safety margin,' we don't think that's been done here with that many lives sacrificed and that many asthma attacks allowed," John Walke, clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, tells ScienceInsider.
By a three-to-one margin, voters thought that pressure from women's groups had led to Mondale's decision rather than his having chosen the best available candidate.
I also think that's possible — and desirable — and that Khamenei's margin for resisting it has just narrowed.
"I don't think that would be your philosophy, because that just leaves more room for margin for error.
Loomis said exit polls showed that by a 53percentto41percentcent margin, Kansas voters thought that Brownback's tax cuts were harmful to the state, but they re-elected him anyway.
With a 25% profit margin, he thinks that "EMC is one of the best-managed companies in the storage business".
And by a 45percentto35percentcent margin, a plurality of Americans thought that most of those occasional smokers are responsible adults.
Scalia thought that the widening margin spoke to a sorry situation.
