Word: margin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collected the largest number of seats. With a slow count still incomplete at week's end, the projection was 56 or possibly 57 seats. With five votes from two Arab parties aligned with Labor, she will have a majority of one or two-just below the three-vote margin she enjoyed on taking office last March...
...majority of 38 in the 125-seat Parliament. Last week, with the final votes still being counted, it was apparent that the Liberals held power-but only just. In the closest tally in years, the opposition Labor Party seemed likely to trim Prime Minister John Gorton's comfortable margin to at best a half-dozen seats...
...motion to table discussion indefinitely on the right to reschedule classes failed to gain a two-thirds majority in a 46-30 vote. The resolution was eventually passed overwhelmingly. After modifications in wording, the resolution to consider the school's role in society also carried by a large margin...
...Tufts breaks the contract by halting construction, it could result in a lawsuit that could cost up to $2 million. We operate on a small margin: that is mostly red." President Hallowell said...
...Carl B. Stokes-the first black mayor of a major American city-won a second term by a tiny margin in Cleveland yesterday, but a black candidate for mayor of Detroit trailed as late returns came...