Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many the action looked unseemly. Said Phoenix Lawyer Mark Harrison: "This vote will enhance the mouthpiece image for which many lawyers are known." Next day, as if to make amends, the delegates, by a 2-to-1 margin, embraced a newly explicit requirement: a lawyer must reveal perjury committed by his client in court. "The two votes were as inconsistent as they could possibly be," said Hofstra Law Professor Monroe Freedman, an ethics expert who believes in strict confidentiality. "I think the second vote was, more than anything else, an image vote...
...political control and brought into question the mission of the 127-year-old institution in the Alabama town that bears its name. Three vice presidents have resigned in protest, and the faculty has twice passed no-confidence votes against the president, the last by a 3-to-l margin. In November, Funderburk refused the faculty's request that he step down. Matters worsened last week with the resignation of Wayne Flynt as chairman of the history department. Three days earlier, Gerald Johnson had quit as head of the political-science program. Said he: "I know that I could...
...earlier competition means anything, the Tigers seem to have been tamed Harvard bested them by a resounding 7-2 margin two weekends ago in Princeton's packed Jadwin courts...
...margin was still insufficient as far as the ATA was concerned, but the group had little success in producing further changes until another pre-Christmas legislative rush in 1974. At that time, once again making the very best of a bad situation, it traded the 55 mile per hour speed limit for an increase in weight to 80,000 lbs., an increase in width to 102 inches, and an extension of the length limit to 65 feet--allowing truckers to operate the longer tandem trailers. It was a healthy exchange, but unfortunately for the industry, 14 states with lower limits...
...bench than on the court Coach Bob Brannum once played for the Boston Celtics and his assistant Kevin O Brien played baseball in the New York Yankee organization O'Brien's father Fran coaches MIT. Until last night, a 25-point trouncing of MIT was Harvard's largest victory margin of the year...