1.   ASU recruiting coordinator Robin Pflugrad said recent NCAA restrictions have dramatically reduced the margin for error in recruiting.

2.   Across the PC industry, gross margins have been reduced steadily by price cutting.

3.   Chrysler improved its position as the most profitable U.S. automaker, despite its aggressive use of rebates that attract buyers yet reduce margins.

4.   Counters work episodically, returning to the same locations again and again to reduce their margin of error.

5.   Each bruising vote has reduced his margin of support, and by now only a bare majority, if that, of the party still backed the peace agreement.

6.   For the financial system as a whole, the new competition is expected to reduce interest margins, as the banks fight for loans and consumer deposits.

7.   It hurts him by reducing his margin for error.

8.   That would reduce margins further.

9.   The recovery in the housing market has increased competition in the U.K. mortgage market, which has reduced lending margins.

10.   Umpires still will be the object of scorn, but the mistakes will be fewer, the margin of error reduced significantly.