Word: margin
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...event of a general breakdown of law-and-order, or of a direct threat to the Warsaw Pact. If they should ever do so, in the opinion of Colonel Jonathan Alford of London's Institute for Strategic Studies, the intervention would be carried out "with a very great margin of superiority." His estimate is that the Soviets would bring in as many as 35 divisions, with around 500,000 men. But Alford believes the Soviet high command has counseled caution over Poland. One reason: even on so crushing a scale, the military is rarely able to produce a political solution...
...pickins' for Frankie McLaughlin, Says here, he'll soon have the whole Ivies talkin'. It's Pat Ewing's opponents that'll need Christmas gifts, Enough for Bob Klitgaard, if he can heal all rifts. A solar-powered Yuletide for our bookworm Paul Tsongas Ted Kennedy gets a win margin humongous. For S. Allen Counter a foundation most firm, But for Israel's Begin an end to his term; An heir or an heiress will greet Charles and Di; We know Larry Bird will continue to fly. Graduate wishes to Vorenberg, Jim and Graham, Pat; Fifteen no-hitters for Fernando...
Christianity--by an enormous margin--outnumbers all other U.S. religious groups. Discussing the uses of American religion for social change, therefore, is almost synonymous with discussing the uses of Protestantism and Catholicism. Jews are the most active and humanist group in this country; diehard atheists, too, have a pretty good record of social concern. It is among devoted and casual Christians-especially Protestants-that there are the vast numbers who could form new majorities, new sentiments. At least for the moment, though the bulk of organized American Christianity supports the very worst political tendencies, confusing, making synonymous, the identities...
...game's remaining time, twelve points for Harvard jumped onto the score board with Horne, Hall, Margaret Long, Wendy Joseph, and Val Jordan, each adding to Harvard's final effort. But the Catamounts were able to generate enough offense to squeak out a victory by only a one point margin...
...winning margin was so great that Crimson coach Pappy Hunt apologized after the meet. "I hate to win by that score," Hunt said. "It's embarrassing. We didn't try to do it," he explained...