Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five-goal margin makes the game look much closer than it actually was. The Crimson pulled away from Skidmore gradually, leading by three at the end of two 15-minute periods. The real story of the game was the shots-on-goal totals, 47 by Harvard to only four by Skidmore. Over their six games this season, the Crimson has outshot its opponents by more than a two-to-one margin...
...Crimson widened the margin to four when White scored her second of the afternoon, again off passes from Carroll and Taft, at the 6:40 mark. As Skidmore staggered toward the final buzzer, coach Dooley gave his fourth line of Kristy Anastasio, Dinny Starr and Katrinka Leschey extra ice-time. The trio finished off the scoring as Starr tallied her first goal with the varsity at 8:18, with assists by NOTEBOOK: For the second time this season the Crimson's goal-total was higher than the oppositions's shot-total....Bad news on the injury front: as the result...
That tally finished off the scoring until Potter's deflection late in the game that sliced the margin to 3-2. But the youthful but mature Harvard defense didn't panic in the final three minutes ("That's what a 2-0 victory in the Beanpot will do for you"--Cleary...
...bill applies only to Cambridge, which is fitting. Though voters across the state approved the bill by better than a two-to-one margin, Cambridge citizens had the foresight to buck the trend and defeat the legislation by about the same margin. All the special legislation now before the state would do is give Cambridge voters what they have already asked rora fiscally sound, well-managed and efficient city, with well-plowed streets...
...popular former Education Minister in the Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Callaghan, Williams scored her victory in a by-election in Crosby, a backwater suburb of Liverpool that had sent Tories to Westminster since 1918. In the last election, the Tories' victory margin was 19,000 votes. Williams not only won by 5,000 votes; she captured 49.1% of the tally, compared with 39.8% for the Tories and 9.5% for Labor. Proclaimed London's Daily Mirror with unabashed admiration: "Shirley the First...