Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Cambridge's tax needs have not yet reached the statemandated levy limit, the city is approaching its cap. The city estimates a levy of about $109 million of the permitted $113.5 million for this year, leaving only a $4 million margin. For fiscal 1989, the margin was nearly $13 million...
With a little less than 500 meters to go, UBC started to sprint and gained half a length on the lights, cutting their margin down to four seats and forcing Radcliffe to take an early sprint...
...middle 1000 the lights were four seats ahead of UBC and took a power 10 (strokes), gaining three seats and a bow-to-stern margin...
...American Jewish Committee shows similar feelings among rank-and-file American Jews. The survey found that 58% of American Jews endorse and 18% oppose Israeli-P.L.O. negotiations, provided Arafat's recognition of Israel and renunciation of terrorism are genuine. The poll found that, by a lesser margin, they favor Labor over Likud...
...whether the guns have a real sporting purpose or are used primarily to kill people. The next day Colt Industries suspended commercial sales of the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, the civilian copy of the military's M-16. In California the 80-member state assembly voted by a narrow margin (41 to 38) to outlaw the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic weapons, a move that could inspire two dozen other state legislatures considering similar bans. It was a stunning triple play that exhilarated gun- control activists and left the mighty gun lobby fuming...