Word: margin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebuttal, the plaintiffs maintain that Resor okayed only the planning, but not the construction, of the larger channel. They cite letters he sent at the time to members of Congress declaring that the project was "only marginally justified." Added Resor: "The Tennessee-Tombigbee project continues to lack that margin of economic safety which typically marks federal investments in water resource development." But Al Fitt, who served as special assistant to Resor for civil functions (including Corps of Engineers' projects), submitted an affidavit to the court stating that his boss's memo was intended to approve the actual widening...
...course, there are other factors. I do not think that the mullahs were triggered by the Soviet Union. However, some trained agitators probably helped fan the flames that already existed even there. No doubt there existed objective reasons for discontent, but the margin between unrest and revolution came at least in part from the outside...
...Huskies returned from the intermission ready to play, while visions of exams and unfinished papers haunted McLaughlin's troops. Northeastern won the tap and Herb Caesar quickly sunk a charity toss with only seven seconds gone in the new period, cutting the Harvard margin to four. A jumper by Caesar and another by teammate Bill Loughnane tied the game with 17:28 to play...
...Fischer and Streeter. The same combination clicked again during a goalmouth scramble at 15:16 to give Harvard a lead it never relinquished. Only fourteen seconds later, Lauren Norton converted a rebound as Alice Hill and Firkins Reed picked up assists on the play for a 3-1 margin before Dartmouth...
...Hooft again a few seconds later, scoring on one of his many driving layups along the baseline to momentarily make the game interesting. But when the margin reached 68-56, Perry went to work controlling the tempo of the game...