1.   Analysts expect the packaging unit to generate most growth in the years ahead as margins increase amid lower raw material costs.

2.   As those numbers shrink through mergers, costs should come down, margins should increase, and investors should be rewarded.

3.   Gross margin increased, as the stores marked down less merchandise.

4.   Knutsen said margins increased largely because its last launch of audio equipment, which has the highest margins among its products.

5.   Margins increased as the companies paid less for each barrel of oil and received higher prices when they sold products refined from the crude.

6.   Margins increased as the companies paid less for a barrel of oil and received higher prices when they sold products refined from the crude.

7.   Narrower margins increase risks for traders.

8.   The reduced margin increases the potential clout of Republican moderates and Democratic conservatives, who could provide the pivotal swing vote on closely contested issues.

9.   Despite going from eighth to sixth, the margin to Makinen increased from Saturday.