1. This is a marginal improvement on October.

2. The difference between the two estimates is marginal.

3. The marginal illustration is very interesting.

4. He owns a small, marginal business.

5. The story will only be of marginal interest to our readers.

6. Welsh was considered a marginal language.

7. The minister's own seat is a Tory marginal.

8. The role of the opposition party proved marginal.

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9. The album contains too many songs by marginal bands.

10. There's only a marginal difference between the two estimates.

11. Beyond this marginal fringe no agriculture is possible.

12. These people occupy such a marginal position in society that the authorities think they can be safely ignored.

13. He won the most marginal seat by only two votes.

14. The marginal Tory constituency was held by 2200 votes in 1992.

15. The analysts applaud the cuts in marginal businesses, but insist the company must make deeper sacrifices.

16. High marginal tax rates may act as a disincentive to working longer hours.

17. The new law will have only a marginal effect on the lives of most people.

18. Kensington was now a marginal constituency.

19. Other companies have had only marginal success.

20. There has been only a marginal increase in sales.

21. Nationalized industries were directed to adopt marginal cost pricing.

22. Yet London contains around 25 Labour-winnable marginal seats.

23. Our tax lodestar has been low marginal rates.

24. The left-hand side represents marginal revenue.

25. Alfred Marshall called this marginal utility.

26. The report suggests that there has only been a marginal improvement in women's pay over the past few years.

27. The Tories are concentrating their campaign in the key marginal constituencies.

28. Competition will drive the price down near to the marginal cost .

29. The tribunals were established for the well-integrated members of society and not for marginal individuals.

30. This once important social group is becoming more and more marginal.

1. This is a marginal improvement on October.

2. The difference between the two estimates is marginal.

3. The marginal illustration is very interesting.

4. The report suggests that there has only been a marginal improvement in women's pay over the past few years.

5. The Tories are concentrating their campaign in the key marginal constituencies.

6. The story will only be of marginal interest to our readers.

7. This once important social group is becoming more and more marginal.

8. He won the most marginal seat by only two votes.

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9. The new law will have only a marginal effect on the lives of most people.

31. Tax bases were broadened; marginal rates were cut.

32. At marginal mines, small improvements could pay big dividends.

33. Yet the shift is perceived by many as marginal.

34. He compares the price to the marginal utility.

35. The unit cost function represents marginal and average costs.

36. Slowly people are moving away from the marginal fringe.

37. General practice based education is still a marginal activity.

38. There are marginal comments and addresses for quick reference.

38. try its best to gather and create good sentences.

39. At best, the Bill is a marginal improvement.

40. The difference between the two cars is marginal.

41. It shows the marginal benefit to the individual.

42. Presumably, the rational shareholder would do this up to the point at which marginal benefit was equated with marginal cost.

43. Next day: Of the 30 and 40 constituencies that count tomorrow, five are marginal and could determine the outcome.

44. As more capital is raised, the cost increases at the margin, increasing the marginal cost in increments.

45. I won a marginal seat and have held it on five successive occasions.

46. This possibility depends on a wedge between price and marginal[], not average cost.

47. To recap the method, direct taxes have a legal framework facilitating the assessment of the overall effective marginal tax rates.

48. The story of marginal change is not dissimilar in the health service.

49. Just as the greater includes the less, so a provision for the marginal case must include the central case.

50. Any new in-house benefits an employer provides should be computed on a marginal cost basis.

51. His few educated or moneyed followers came from among people rendered marginal by ethnicity or factional misfortune.

52. But Table 16-2 shows that marginal tax rates also rise with income.

53. At the equilibrium quantity Q the marginal consumer benefit is P l but the marginal social cost is P 2.

54. The yield of satisfactions from a marginal increment in the supply is small.

55. What marginal tax rate applies to taxable income which falls between $ 16, 000 and $ 20, 000?

56. This term has subsequently been used to designate the marginal group in relation to the dominant order.

57. A more marginal case is where the defendant is seen to be raising his fists in anticipation of the fight.

58. The issue is to estimate the marginal benefit from the increased frequency of screening examinations against the marginal increased cost.

59. However, Figure 18-1 is simplified by assuming constant average and marginal short-run operating costs up to full capacity.

60. However, SERPs has become a more marginal system as a result of recent changes in the legislation relating to pensions.

61. D 2 D 2 shows the marginal benefit of purer water to the second individual.

62. If factor prices are equalized, each firm will have the same marginal costs.

63. Unlike Aung San and Sukarno he was a model student, excelling despite his marginal position.

64. Therefore price competition between them for the right to sell to the retailers would drive price to marginal cost.

65. Free market equilibrium will not equate marginal cost and marginal benefit and there will be scope for Pareto gains.

66. Indeed, asbestos is a prime example of how marginal exposure to carcinogens does not cause disease.

67. The average cost then increases at a slower rate and eventually approaches the marginal cost.

68. The allowances can be diminished for later children, on the grounds that the marginal cost goes down.

68. try its best to gather and make good sentences.

69. An important point to remember is that the size of the multiplier depends on the marginal propensities to save and import.

70. This will result in a downward displacement of the marginal cost curve from to.

71. More marginal are those in which there is correspondence only in some of the segmental phonemes.

72. Let R be the ratio of price to marginal revenue for good i as perceived by firms in some country.

73. Economic analysis of this scheme, however, showed it to be very marginal.

74. The profit-maximizing policy involves setting marginal revenue equal to marginal cost.

75. And when budgets are cut, marginal programs are the first to go.

76. The marginal physical product of labour curve shifts to the right.

77. But they are merely marginal figures that mostly clean up the mess.

78. There is a core vote-a traditional solid Labour support-in every constituency in the land, including marginal seats.

79. Large economies of scale mean that marginal cost lies below average cost.

80. This means that, to compete, rail prices have to be pitched at these marginal costs.

81. Catholics and Protestants in marginal areas were burnt out of their homes and forced to move into their respective ghettoes.

82. During a General Election, Party members might be encouraged to lend a hand in nearby marginal constituencies.

83. Much of the rise in employment in the boom came in the marginal, part-time jobs generally done by women.

84. But to see them as marginal or peripheral is something else again.

85. If marginal costs are non-constant then no equilibrium price exists unless outputs are non-homogeneous, i.e. there is product differentiation.

86. Table 16-2 picks out the most controversial aspect of the tax system, the marginal rate of income tax.

87. What is the social marginal benefit of the last unit to the group as a whole?

88. The Prime Minister rounded off his campaign by visiting two Tory marginal seats in south London.

89. But it produced critical evidence about how different designs of tax would hit marginal seats and heartland Tory ones.

90. The marginal impact on the local economy left few traces on the record.

91. The role of women in fomenting male aggression is, I now believe, marginal, even irrelevant.

92. These are lean times for the poor small farmers who work marginal lands in the coastal districts.

93. Relief is paid at the tax-payer's top marginal rate of income tax, provided the investment is bed for five years.

94. However, in the calibration model, constant marginal operating costs were assumed.

95. Technically it's not a marginal because it's the first time it's been fought.

96. But it seems only marginal to our treatment of them and, not surprisingly, highly informal.

97. The marginal cost of capital is the discount rate that should be used in making capital budgeting decisions.

98. Sometimes decorative motifs are seen, as distinct from engraved geometric signs around the rim or marginal notches.

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99. As usual, marginal revenue equals the price times one minus one over the elasticity of demand.

100. Equilibrium will be inefficient. 7 Distortions occur whenever free market equilibrium does not equate marginal social cost and marginal social benefit.

101. But when films are taxed we have just seen that the marginal social benefit of another film exceeds its marginal cost.

102. These rivals scratched out a tenuous existence through a combination of herding animals and marginal cultivation of the soil.

103. Against Ruddock, a marginal fighter others have put away easily, Tyson never landed the big punch.

104. Calculations of the social marginal costs and benefits of cutting back pollution tend to be conspicuous by their absence.

105. Hand in hand with this measure goes an equally bold re-focusing of Labour's strategy concerning marginal constituencies.

106. Above $ 75, 000, the marginal rate would jump, again, to 34 percent.

107. The marginal value product of labour in the two locations is illustrated by M r and M s, respectively.

108. The two men met yesterday at Tory command in another nearby marginal, Lewisham West, and enjoyed a chat.

109. Obviously he was calculating on the basis of marginal costs of running the car, but this is what all motorists do.

110. At auction the purchaser may have been able to acquire the site at a marginal figure above the next highest bid.

111. Successful experiments all too often remain marginal, if they have no political clout.

112. This marginal cost will, of course, also increase the average cost, but the average cost will increase more slowly.

113. Answer guide: Marginal costing only includes costs that are directly attributable to products.

114. Another beneficial trick is to re-order the rows and columns of a table in descending order of marginal totals.

115. She said Darlington had been chosen because it was a marginal constituency.

116. A marginal saving in costs for Project, which is looking to increase its exports.

117. The commune provided some marginal bargaining power for the peasantry since concerted resistance could not be lightly dismissed.

118. But when the average cost curve is falling the marginal cost curve lies below average cost.

119. Some were shot on location in shanty towns or marginal neighbourhoods.

120. The consensus on full employment lasted as long as measures to achieve full employment involved only marginal changes to society.

121. In the 1979 and 1983 elections there were examples of locally popular candidates holding their marginal seats against the national swing.

122. They imagine if they make subtle and marginal changes in tax rates everyone will notice.

123. The rising number of landless and marginal farmers poses a serious challenge.

124. For years marginal radio stations paid the rent with late-night or Sunday-morning preacher shows, which they aired for cash up front.

125. These political costs, moreover, produced only marginal gains in terms of local government expenditure control.

126. Such reductions might be marginal and therefore the enhancement tended to have less impact than when it was used for cross-school initiatives.

127. That is to say, policy changes more frequently take the form of relatively marginal changes to existing policies.

128. This excess of price over both marginal revenue and marginal cost is a convenient measure of the firm's monopoly power.

129. Women's political life is characterised as marginal, shallow and inauthentic in comparison with that of men.

130. In this way we get closer to the efficient solution in which the marginal cost of pollution reduction is equalized across firms.

131. However, a second marginal comment in his New Testament both latches on to Crime and Punishment and provokes a backward thought.

132. They present as a major force in society attitudes and tastes which would be regarded as rather eccentric and marginal in Britain.

133. He has looked at marginal rates in some cases, but not in others.

134. One of the country's two most marginal seats, Brecon and Radnor, also declares today.

135. The result is a marginal increase in the risk of infection.

136. Large cities in America had become the home of the poor and socially marginal groups.

137. The general level of wages exceeded the marginal disutility of employment.

138. First, women's labour market participation is regarded as marginal in comparison with that of men.

139. The overwhelming conclusion emerging from any assessment of these programmes is that they have only a marginal impact on inner-urban problems.

140. Laboratory tests have two primary purposes, one of which is to detect marginal nutritional deficiencies.

141. Some crimes were acts of protest, but within the overall context of illegal activity they were marginal.

142. With no production externality, marginal private cost and marginal social cost coincide.

143. How could he make them see there was nothing to his scheme but the marginal notes of a diehard and fool?

144. And a difference between price and marginal cost can make behavior very different from that in a perfectly competitive model.

145. This is reflected in the model by a declining marginal cost curve.

146. The most important breeding habitat is lakes or ponds with good marginal vegetation.

147. It is normally posited that the marginal disutility of employment is an increasing function of the actual level of employment.

148. No good reason, that is to say, provided that the resultant marginal over-representation of those parties is fairly distributed between all of them.

149. And it could encourage harder work by reducing marginal tax rates.

150. Previous similar efforts with traditional expert systems technology met with marginal success.

151. This results in compressed files that run transparently, albeit with a marginal time overhead for code expansion.

152. As any Economics 101 student could have warned beforehand, none of these schemes has had more than a marginal impact.

153. But what happens at school can then further define the child as unusual, as marginal.

154. Similarly, accurate estimates of the marginal costs of production are often very difficult to obtain.

155. Break-even charts are useful for their indication of the effects of marginal changes in sales volume or costs on profit figures.

156. The deposits are, in the main, so marginal that large companies with financial muscle are required to exploit them.

157. Thus, beyond a certain point the marginal social benefit of further risk reduction will exceed the marginal social cost.

158. If the spot yield is the average return,[] then the forward rate can be interpreted as the marginal return.

159. Another factor not taken into account before the election was the number of expatriate Tory voters registered in marginal constituencies.

160. Their epistemic competence in multiple forms of life depends on the specific marginal discourses at their disposal owing to their specific background.

161. The market ensures that the price equals the marginal benefit and the marginal cost, and hence equates the two.

162. Firms still choose the quantity of labour demanded to equate the gross wage to the marginal value product of labour.

163. In turn this will move producers back down their marginal cost curves and alter the net-of-tax price producers require.

164. So marginal changes in time allocation to sport may be difficult.

165. Social efficiency requires that prices be close to marginal cost but this will imply losses for the natural monopolist.

166. A depressing picture, but nevertheless I would argue that there has been a marginal improvement over the years.

167. The earnout payment should reflect marginal improvements above this base.

168. Since there are no production externalities, this marginal private cost curve is also the marginal social cost curve.

169. The equilibrium price or insurance premium would equate the marginal cost and marginal benefit of risk-bearing.

170. That Bible contained marginal notes and special references that were irreplaceable.

171. In addition(), there were energy charges intended to cover short-run marginal costs of operating the plant.

172. Table 16-2 shows that the first Thatcher government was able to reduce marginal tax rates substantially, especially for the very rich.

173. From the perspective of traditional psychology, such psychologists are, even more than egalitarian feminist psychologists, reassuringly marginal.

174. On Tuesday Invergordon Distillers reported a marginal improvement in underlying profits, no mean feat given the difficulties facing the whisky sector.

175. In the incremental approach, choices are typically marginal changes from existing policies.

176. The poor were moved into other marginal neighborhoods, and highly profitable upper middle class developments replaced the slums.

177. That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs.

178. This lawyer was therefore classified as professionally marginal, in a structural rather than an attitudinal sense.

179. Its implications for women and families have been explored, rather than dismissed as marginal phenomena.

180. In Cambridge, there was a campaign to persuade students to register in the city, which was a marginal Conservative seat.

181. The capital stock should be increased if the marginal social benefit exceeds the long-run marginal cost inclusive of the capital charge.

182. One method of doing this is the system of marginal costing.

183. In Britain at least, the role of art in the environmental movement has been fairly marginal.

184. In the name of democracy, they are transforming the political landscape to make democracy marginal.

185. For the strong propaganda machinery it was almost too easy to transform what had once been marginal into the nearly official.

186. The highest marginal rate of tax has fluctuated since 1969 between 34.13% and 20%.

187. Second, that in general this means reducing the value of allowances and broadening the tax base rather than increasing marginal tax rates.

188. Pricing at marginal cost might equate marginal cost and benefit but would entail losses.

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189. If we can measure the marginal cost directly, we can infer the implicit marginal benefit from saving life through that activity.

190. The model is one of monopolistic competition, in which each firm has a declining cost curve, although constant marginal cost.

191. Instead it allows for the discovery of both marginal gainers and losers.

192. Inpart this reflects the genuine difficulty in measuring marginal benefits.

193. To sum up, prices should be set at short-run marginal cost.

194. Given diminishing marginal utility of income, more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period.

195. This means that marginal tax rates for some elderly taxpayers are 85 % higher than for younger taxpayers.

196. By analogy, shows the marginal percapita crowding costs, i.e. the amount by which crowding costs increase as the population increases.

197. Some analysts believe Amec is in a strong enough position to give shareholders a marginal increase in their dividends.

198. Although most of the proposed changes in means-tested forms of support were confirmed the review would now realize only marginal financial savings.

199. Few had any special skills; they worked as casual laborers, eking out a marginal existence, often reduced to begging.

200. However, the Soviet initiative attracted only marginal support from the states in the region.

201. Many of the squatter settlements exhibit high levels of social organisation and stability rather than marginal characteristics.

202. The marginal rate of income tax is the percentage taken by the government of the last pound that an individual earns.

203. In the marginal fringe, where farmland meets wild moorland, woodland or marshland, there are several changes.

204. For example, an input may be priced at above marginal cost in a situation where there are variable proportions in production.

205. Marginal Costing Another duty of the accounts department is that of recording the costs incurred in company activities such as manufacturing.

206. Pricing at short-run marginal cost, the industry will charge a price P 2.

207. But written instructions in the blank spaces of books themselves do survive and so do tiny marginal thumbnail sketches to indicate subjects.

208. Each worker receives the value of his marginal product under competition.

209. In Sussex they are much more important for their breeding birds than reservoirs as they generally have much more marginal vegetation.

210. He was inaugurating Labour's national crusade on jobs, which will be concentrated on marginal Tory constituencies.

211. For a start, subsidies themselves encourage over-intensive farming by making it economic to farm marginal land.

212. Which is why two of the candidates in the marginal Darlington constituency have said such strange things about cigarettes lately.

213. Mr Devlin's constituency was a marginal seat before Parliament was dissolved last week, having a majority of 774.

214. In theory this process could go as far as equating marginal cost with demand so that the bureaucracy obtains all the consumer surplus.

215. In equilibrium this higher marginal revenue exactly offsets transportation costs.

216. Since marginal cost is less than marginal consumer benefit, society would gain by expanding the output of such industries.

217. When evaluating capital budgeting decisions, it is this marginal cost that should be used as the appropriate cost of capital.

218. There is a case for government intervention to make sure marginal social cost and marginal social benefit are equated.

219. To raise his wage without raising his marginal productivity would be to put his pay above his contribution.

220. Equating marginal cost and marginal revenue, each firm will produce an output at which price exceeds marginal cost.

221. Short-run marginal cost pricing equates immediate marginal costs and marginal benefits.

222. Some 15,000 crofts, small family farm units that offer marginal incomes and mainly part-time employment, have survived.

223. Other market proxies have laid down rules for pricing according to marginal cost.

224. For other groups the authors note that the overall marginal tax rate was at an historically high level in excess of 60 percent.

225. By skill, diligence and training(), the individual could raise his marginal product and hence the wage he could claim.

226. Thus at the output Q the social marginal benefit is.

227. The monopolist produces an output Q M at a price P M thus equating marginal cost and marginal revenue.

228. Currency movements had only a marginal impact on the results.

229. In this example, the marginal benefit of another film exceeds the marginal cost of producing another film.

230. Theoretical transfer pricing is all very well, but in practice not many companies will know their marginal cost and revenue functions.

231. But it will make only a marginal difference to the stagnant housing market.

232. I think he's just got a marginal talent he's masterful at exploiting.

233. Many of its workers and functions were of marginal utility and at the cost of a better price to cocoa farmers.

234. Your marginal costs are also society's marginal costs, but society's marginal benefits exceed your own.

235. The difference between the average and marginal tax rates illustrated in Exhibit 2. 2 may be best explained by an example.

236. Unless there is any redress to this distortion, the marginal products of labour will not be equal.

237. In the age of mass communications, politics is becoming ever more marginal.

238. It may thus transpire that a marginal improvement is insufficient to justify the increase in complexity associated with this algorithm.

239. But that functioning is marginal to the lives of most people in affluent societies.

240. So it must be assumed that the importance of marginal increments of all production is low and declining.

241. Hence the angle of the arrowhead measures the marginal product of labour.

242. For example, the marginal propensity to make bequests out of lifetime income may rise with the level of income.

243. Many workers in the private sector receive some payment as a fixed fee independent of the value of their marginal product.

244. The simple reason for that is that farmers put their most marginal and least productive land into set-aside.

245. This in turn led to increased degradation that has been exacerbated by the subsequent use of marginal lands for cultivation.

246. Kids in our society who would be school dropouts or marginal students were working hard.

247. Even with marginal changes, assumptions about incidence are crucial and these are discussed in more detail below.

248. The tax rates shown in column 2 of Table 8-2 are marginal tax rates.

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249. On the supply side, firms maximize profits and entry occurs until the marginal firm can only just break even.

250. It was test-flown at Long Beach where the pilot, Don Dinoff, reported excessive oil consumption and a marginal engine.

251. Marginal plants can benefit considerably from this treatment, but it should not be provided for those of a rampant nature.

252. To attain efficiency, it would be expected that factors of production would be allocated so that their marginal products would be equal.

253. It was in a constant state of reoccupation, favoured only by marginal or twilight enterprises indifferent to a fundamentally inhuman environment.

254. Since marginal private and social benefits diverge, private markets will not produce the socially efficient quantity.

255. The manufacture of cloth was thus no more than a marginal addition to the subsistence agriculture of the interior.

256. Figure 15-3 shows that at the equilibrium point E the marginal utility of the last film equals its marginal cost.

257. Recent evidence from boreholes clearly demonstrates the control of Triassic basin sedimentation by marginal faults.

258. This would permit a much lower marginal rate of tax. 4.

259. Above Q *; the marginal utility of films is less than the marginal utility of meals sacrificed.

260. Capital, like labor, was compensated at a rate corresponding to its marginal product.

261. A SUBSTANTIAL silent minority still holds the key to who wins the marginal seat of Darlington, according to a new poll.

262. Savouring her 1,440-vote capture of the Tory marginal, the double Oscar winner said yesterday her acting career was over.

263. Lower marginal rates would also improve work incentives and shrink the black economy, which is said to be booming.

264. Then, as now, population pressures pushed cultivation into ever-steeper and more marginal growing regions.

265. A marginal tax rate is the tax paid on additional or incremental income.

266. Note that an attempt to introduce universal marginal benefit taxation implies the acceptance of the statusquo.

267. Just the kind of marginal folk hero they would go and use as a mascot.

268. Thus, some policemen are urged by their tough-minded colleagues to treat marginal incidents as criminal behaviour and are encouraged into action.

269. Businesses can already buy from suppliers in different countries, and exchange costs are marginal.

270. a marginal improvement in weather conditions.

271. Diminishing marginal utility also expresses a " variety is the spice of life ".

272. When there is a diminishing marginal rate substitution, preferences are convex.

273. The poor are forced to farm in more marginal lands higher up the mountains.

274. Marginal cost is the incremental cost on producing one more unit.

275. There has been a marginal improvement in the firm's sales.

276. Yet this simple arithmetic ignores an offsetting effect: diminishing marginal returns.

277. I don't want to call him marginal, but he's not a major character.

278. For low-paid workers, the marginal tax rate is at least 75%.

279. Diminishing marginal returns can account for the inevitability of the downward trend.

280. The unconformity marks the change from fluvial to marginal marine deposition.