Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carey decided not to seek a third term, Koch, 57, set his sights on Albany. Some city voters seemed determined to keep Koch home: he ended up only splitting the city vote with Cuomo. (In the 1977 mayor's race, Koch topped Cuomo by a 55%-to-45% margin.) Upstaters turned out in heavy numbers to vote 2 to 1 for Cuomo. They were rankled by Koch's ill-advised interview with Playboy magazine earlier this year, in which he called rural life "a joke," and put off by his wisecracking city style...
...Christian Democratic Leader Rainer Barzel, tempted by the government's narrow margin of seats, sought to topple Social Democratic Chancellor Willy Brandt. He failed by two votes, and in the 1972 national election the Christian Democrats suffered significant losses...
...three-to-one margin, women undergraduates polled this week said they would vote to keep the $5 charge on their term bill that currently funds the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) if a referendum on the issue is held...
...poll conducted by The Crimson in all the residential Houses last Saturday, women students said by a 263 to 81 margin that they would vote to keep...
...other Free Democrat Cabinet ministers abruptly tendered their resignations, possibly surprising Schmidt, who had calculated that Genscher would be afraid to split his own party by lurching toward Kohl. Indeed, the F.D.P. executive committee later endorsed Genscher's proposal to open negotiations with the Christian Democrats by a margin...