11. High margins had been a big part of the Snapple story. 12. In one sense, of course, the high margins on SUVs and pickups are not especially paradoxical. 13. In the U.S. food division, a strong performance of its ice-cream business -- which carries high margins -- offset slower sales to supermarkets. 14. In the U.S. food division, the ice-cream business -- which carries high margins -- put in the strongest performance. 15. Its investment prospects are also supported by its participation in a niche market that offers high margins and expectations of strong fiscal second-quarter results, Tertzakian said. 16. Mainframe computers have relatively high margins, but sales declined during the quarter compared with a year earlier. 17. Only the high margins provided by such private-label goods can pay the costs of marketing, warehousing and shipping. 18. Such a high margin is unprecedented in the wireless industry, analysts said. 19. That spells high margins once the company passes its break-even point. 20. The distributors are betting they can bring new plants on line to operate at half the cost, and thus return artificially high margins over the short term. |