In addition to taking out the loan from Goldman in 2012, which was a margin loan attached to a brokerage account, the Cruzes took out a credit line, of similar size, from Citibank.
On skis that she powered through the choppy snow conditions, Kostelic completed her first run in the giant slalom today 49-hundredths of a second ahead of the field, which is a significant margin.
The question, said analysts, is whether Hewlett-Packard and Compaq can break into the high-margin business, when they have thus far focused their service business more on providing product support, which is a lower-margin business.
Until recently, Japanese banks were heavily focused on corporate lending, which is a low-margin business even in the best of times.
Like most of its competitors, Hewlett-Packard has been seeking to increase its consulting services business, which is a considerably higher margin business than selling computer hardware.
"This puts us in the oil-card business, which is a very good margin business and very profitable," said Robert Lipp, who oversees Citigroup's consumer finance businesses and was recently named a director of the company.
National Grid's true figure is 6.6%, which is a slightly higher margin than last year and takes into account capacity measures it has put in place to ensure security of supply.
But Colorado voted 68% Democratic and 32% Republican in their primary, which is a pretty large margin (better than two-to-one).
The radius r is defined as 10 m here which is a typical GPS error margin.
Zynga is profitable, posting $90.6 million in net income in 2010, which is a a 28% net margin.
