1.   The manufacturer using longer channels will have relatively lower gross margins, coupled with lower channel expenses.

2.   This control has meant lower margins for retailers, and manufacturers being able to dictate the in-store location of their particular products.

3.   And the sales the company is getting are increasingly of its stripped-down appliances, which carry lower margins.

4.   And the sales the company is getting are increasingly for the more basic models, which carry lower margins.

5.   BAe shifted more of its business to high margin manufacturing and production from comparatively lower margin research and development work.

6.   Boeing attributed the deterioration to expectations that it will sell more of its new models, which command lower margins than older planes.

7.   But the print head had grave problems reproducing the bottom edges of the sample photos I tried, omitting some portions and adding extraneous dots in the lower margin.

8.   Companies such as Dell Computer, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have all reported a prosperous Christmas sales season, but they can survive with lower margins, say analysts.

9.   Consulting and professional services, another area that attracts stock investors today, are a higher growth but lower margin business for Banyan.

10.   CUC can have a lower margin than Wal-Mart because it never takes possession of the television.