When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: Flawless.

It is in no one's interest to keep a large segment of the population on the margins of society.

When you purchase a used print book, it comes with its previous owner's highlights and notes in the margins.

Maybe you will put question marks in the margin when you don't understand something and before an exam.

Most students write questions or short notes in the margins.

By focusing on the notes in the margins

Sales assistants promoting high margin goods.

And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.

And then at adulthood, IFPri has actually demonstrated that children who were better nourished have higher wages, by a pretty large margin, by 46 percent.