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.