Word: margin
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While the Senate started off this final two-month stretch playing hide-and-seek with the electorate, the House began by pandering to one of the voters' biggest fears and lowest instincts. Last Tuesday, Massachusetts voters approved by a three-to-two margin a referendum making the death penalty constitutional in the Commonwealth. One week later the representatives spent one afternoon on the matter, and passed the enabling legislation allowing executions. Numerous legislative hearings have been held over the past year, and opponents to capital punishment have dominated the testimony each time, providing multiple studies refuting its effectiveness...
...tactful and diplomatic Bernardin, who is called a "George Shultz of the Catholic hierarchy," will work to mold a consensus around his committee's draft. A special meeting will be called, probably next spring, to vote on the final version. If it passes by a two-thirds margin, it will be sent to all parishes to become a guide for Catholic teachings. Even if adopted, the letter is likely to remain a matter of controversy among members. Says Auxiliary Bishop Anthony Bosco of Pittsburgh: "I have a feeling that the bishops are a little more liberal than many...
...Michael S. Dukakis claimed about 60 percent of the vote and moved from his Kennedy School of Government post back to the Statehouse. Rep. Barney Frank '61, meanwhile, had a surprisingly easy time winning the reshaped Fourth Congressional District seat, besting Rep. Margaret Heckler by a three-to-two margin...
McNamara's loss was expected, but the margin was a huge disappointment. Low budget candidacies have done as well against O'Neill in the past, but this Boston lawyer had poured $700,000 into the effort. To be certain, his showing was in part related to inefficient organization and campaign gaffes. But it can also be cited as an extreme example of the problems facing Republicans all over the state...
...Edward J. King, who openly embraced supply side economics and who was known as Ronald Reagan's favorite Democratic governor, lost in the September Democratic primary by a mere six percentage points. Indeed, polls indicated that it was his brush with corruption, not conservative economics, that provided the margin of defeat. At the same time, John W. Sears '52, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, stayed noticeably silent on the Reagan program, but was buried in the general election by 20 percentage points...