Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here in Cambridge, voters defied the state-wide trend in 1980 and rejected Prop 2 1/2 by an almost 2-1 margin. If any Massachusetts community is likely to over-ride Prop 2 1/2, it is Cambridge, with its unusually informed electorate and progressive city council...
Most towns requesting some sort of over ride have done so out of dire financial need, and rejection by voters may favor the severs cuts of employees and programs In Canton, where voters defeated a partial over-ride referendum by a three to two margin. Executive Secretary Gerard C. Kelly said yesterday. "We are hurt very badly. "As a result of the no vote. "We are not spending a dime for road management," he said...
...balance the Soviet Union does have a definite margin of superiority," he said. "I think that a freeze would not only be disadvantageous-in fact even dangerous-to us with them in that position, but I believe it would also militate against any negotiations . . . The Soviets' great edge is one in which they could absorb our retaliatory blow and hit us again...
Jenkins' victory margin belied the close race that preceded it. Right up to election day, opinion polls gave him at best a slight edge over his rivals. In the end, it seemed, it was the sheer accumulation of smiles and shoe leather and handclasps that put him over the top. At times exuberant with enthusiasm, at other moments almost weighed down with weariness, the 61-year-old political veteran toured the streets with the doggedness of a fledgling candidate standing for his first seat...
Although the Wisconsin hockey team did knock the Crimson out of the playoffs by a considerable margin (10-4 in the two-game series), and the fans adored nearly every minute, the Harvard hockey team certainly wasn't humiliated in Madison...