Word: margin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard team opened on the right foot, leading by a narrow one-goal margin for the first 15 minutes of the game until the Minutemen put their offense in gear. Once rolling, the UMass attack whipped off several quick goals to go ahead 6-3 at the half...
...next, enlarged House of Commons,* a new Gallup poll had the Liberals and the Tories running in a dead heat, each with 41% of the popular favor. Since the Liberals' support is disproportionately concentrated in Quebec, this suggested that the Tories would enjoy a thin overall margin in the race for parliamentary seats, although an unusually high percentage of voters remain undecided. Just as the Liberals are expected to sweep Quebec, the Tories are overwhelmingly dominant in the Western provinces. Thus the election will probably be won or lost in the industrial heartland of Ontario, which has a third...
...terms of profits as a percentage of revenues, the oil firms' average margin was 4.5% in 1978, according to Data Resources. While this was somewhat fatter than the automakers' margin (3.97%), it was below the average for U.S. industry (5.25%) and far under some truly high-profit businesses, such as soft drink companies (7.8%), cosmetics makers (8.11%) and drug firms...
...race began much like the 1978 version. Radcliffe managing a good start and settling into a four-seat lead. Radcliffe cox Lizellen LaFollette kept her crew in command of the slim margin for the first third of the 1500-meter battle. The Tigers, sporting a gutsy group of racers. fought hard through the middle 500 and threatened to pull out the final leg, as they did last year...
Stretching to a six-seat lead after the start, the J. V. boat held the margin and opened into the finish...