Surprisingly enough maybe, our China region is the single highest contribution margin region in the world today.

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And in Q3, our mobile phones business delivered a solid quarter with sequential sales growth and improved contribution margin.

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They know that many products have a large contribution margin, and there is lots of room to compromise to keep from losing a sale.

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Kirjner says contribution margin from domestic streaming should expand substantially over the next three years to 18% by the end of 2014 from about 8% now.

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Should bonuses come off the top-line, bottom-line, be based on contribution margin, be subjectively or objectively distributed, be paid in cash, stock, options, profit sharing, perks, or some other mechanism?

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While revenue growth was low in Q3 2012, CBS did demonstrate significant growth in its profits driven by cost controls and increasing contribution of high margin revenue streams such as digital licensing and re-transmission fee.

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Margin trading increases the relative contribution of idiots in price-setting.

ECONOMIST: Letters

But inflation should then drop back, as the contribution from retail energy prices wanes and the margin of spare capacity in the economy increases.

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Evercore Partners analyst Kirk Materne this afternoon trimmed his EPS estimates for Microsoft for the next couple of quarters to reflect the current shortage of hard-disk drives that has resulted from the recent Thai floods, plus lower gross margin assumptions to reflect increased investment in services and online and a greater revenue contribution from the entertainment and devices segment.

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