Word: margin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...margin of victory came on a two-point conversion with 4:11 left in the game, after Brown had scored a touch-down to trail, 30-29. On the decisive play, quarterback Mark Whipple faked a dive play up the middle, rolled to his right, and flipped to Rick Villella just inside the endzone flag...
...Dollar Bill's" current margin, however, stands only at about 35 per cent to 23 per cent. Bell, backed by a couple of hundred thou in campaign contributions from the Republican National Committee--the largest contribution to any non-incumbent candidate from the GOP--is waging a big media blitz in the last few weeks aimed at the large number of undecided voters. Issuing the standard call for huge tax cuts (of at least 30 per cent), Bell claims that the election is "a referendum on President Carter's economic policies...
...motion to boycott the CRR unconditionally on the grounds that disciplining students for political reasons is wrong failed in the Student Assembly by a large margin...
McCann was opposed in the primary, but he won by a comfortable margin of 3800 votes. Still McCann said it was a hard race and he doesn't count on Tuesday's election as an easy one. "Anytime anyone else is on the ballot, it's a problem," McCann said...
...conservatives have been waiting to get him. They've been like alligators lying on a river bank." The poll shows Percy actually behind Seith in traditionally Republican counties downstate and running only a few points ahead in heavily Republican DuPage County, a Chicago suburb he swept by a margin of 50 percentage points six years...