The government gives more priority to high-margin industrial sectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Tepper Marlin: Turkey's Economic Straddle] Reference

Movie-goers also aren't spending as much on high-margin food and beverages.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Bollywood, the Credit Crunch Means More Slumdog, Less Millionaire] Reference

Advertising is high-margin revenue, so this swing has a big impact on profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Closing the Gap at Viacom Depends on Ads] Reference

Even greater was the 11.3% drop in the high-margin consumer segment of that business.    From Wordnik.com.  [AT&T: Still No Bell Bottom] Reference

Commercial banks were eager to get into high-margin businesses like underwriting hot tech stocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattering Glass-Steagall] Reference

In the past, funeral homes were typically the exclusive purveyors of caskets, a high-margin item.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coffins Made With Brotherly Love Have Undertakers Throwing Dirt] Reference

Those have included high-margin corporate services, an area Mr. Hurd was crucial in developing at H-P.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hewlett-Packard Adds $10 Billion to Buyback Program] Reference

Nokia's profit rose 44% amid strength in emerging markets and sales of high-margin multimedia devices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hole in SocGen] Reference

Profit at the toys business also more than doubled as it benefited from revenue from high-margin sales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toys, Licensing Boost Marvel] Reference

Smartphones are a high-margin segment of the mobile-phone market that has experienced strong growth in recent years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Infineon Lifts Forecast Again as Sales Soar] Reference

"Right now, these operators get 10% to 15% of their revenue from BlackBerry services and it's a high-margin business.".    From Wordnik.com.  [RIM Averts India BlackBerry Ban] Reference

More emphasis on the high-margin beauty and hair-care businesses is a smart tactic, but it could take time to beef up.    From Wordnik.com.  [P&G Has Little Margin for Error as Households Trade Down] Reference

To make it work, publishers would have to radically lower eBook prices and cannibalize their high-margin hardback sales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paperback Earthworks and Digital eReaderTides] Reference

CME, which takes no trading risks and makes no predatory loans, has a diversified book of high-margin derivatives trades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Credit Crisis, by Extension] Reference

Often, the distributors adding such high-margin brews were the same ones that peddled the beers of Anheuser's top rivals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beer Distributors Want] Reference

Already Kraft has been touting the value of its lower-priced but high-margin products, such as Kool-Aid powdered beverages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 50 Women to Watch 2008] Reference

Priceline. com has long been a play on Europe, thanks to its booking. com site, which focuses on hotels, a high-margin area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priceline's Differences Appeal] Reference

In 2002, IBM acquired the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in an effort to get more high-margin consulting contracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [H-P in Talks To Buy EDS,] Reference

The reason: Passenger numbers slumped 8% year-on-year in February and, most worrying, high-margin business travel has slumped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drag on Air France] Reference

My quess is that AKAM will soon be under extreme pressure to lower prices as their high-margin niche becomes a commodity. reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amazon: Grid Storage Web Service Launches] Reference

For in recent years, they have developed low-ticket, high-margin options that alleviate some of the pain associated with flying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of Flights, The Worst of Flights] Reference

Toronto-based Porter uses the Q400 as part of its value proposition for customers, particularly the high-margin business traveler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jazz Air to Buy 15 Bombardier Planes] Reference

Armed with Mr. Pilati's designs and a growing high-margin accessories business, Gucci Group is convinced it has turned the corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Yves Saint Laurent, Brand Lives On] Reference

Graf Jr.Mr. Graf said continued strong demand for its high-margin international service is "of particular benefit to our earnings.".    From Wordnik.com.  [FedEx Rides Demand Wave] Reference

For Subway operators you can still eke out a decent per item profit -- and hope the diner is thirsty for a large, high-margin soda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can They Really Make Money Off the Dollar Menu?] Reference

Cash and liquid holdings don't generate as much income for banks as when clients trade more frequently or invest in high-margin products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julius Baer's Net Drops as Clients Remain Cautious] Reference

"We were surprised by the magnitude of the miss for high-margin generic oral contraceptives," writes Merrill Lynch analyst Gregg Gilbert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barr Shares Fall 23% on Reduced Outlook] Reference

"The high-margin structured businesses have suffered in particular and, at the same time, bank funding conditions are still pretty tight.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Financial-Sector Hiring Continues to Rise in City of London] Reference

The maker of fiber-optic equipment posted fiscal-second-quarter profit that topped Wall Street estimates on sales of high-margin products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cisco Falls] Reference

Consumers are likely to get used to lower prices or low-tier P&G products, making high-margin options harder to sell than in recent years.    From Wordnik.com.  [P&G Has Little Margin for Error as Households Trade Down] Reference

This makes it a high-margin business, and a welcome relief from the highly competitive market for voice calls, where profits are being squeezed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Text Generation] Reference

The executive director of finance, Suneeta Reddy, says the high-margin activity should be seen more as "icing on the cake" than as a major revenue stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Rich: Prathap Reddy] Reference

It was a chance for him to focus more on his specialty, valuing companies for business deals and litigation, a relatively high-margin business in the trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Start Your Own Tax Accounting Business] Reference

Chery Automotive, based in Anhui province, has teamed up with auto impresario Malcolm Bricklin in an effort to move straight into those high-margin categories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Challengers: A New Honda, Or a New Yugo?] Reference

Still, analysts were baffled that supermarkets would curb their orders for condensed soup during the height of soup season, especially because it is a high-margin product.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campbell Soup Cools as Grocers Cut Stocks] Reference

In MADRID, wind-energy firm Gamesa fell 2.8% after Citigroup downgraded the stock to "sell" from "hold," saying it expects volume recovery in high-margin markets to be delayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokyo Stocks Surge on Yen Intervention; Europe Slips] Reference