Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point margin is not indicative of a close contest, and last night's game was not even as close as the final tally indicates. With the score knotted at 24 with 5:14 to go in the first half, Stanford reeled off 13 straight points and outscored the Crimson. 20-1, for the rest of the half, taking a 44-25 lead into the locker room...
Harvard fought back to within seven with five minutes left to play before Rice coach Linda Tucker called time out. Whatever she said must have fired the Owls up--they came out and shut the Crimson down, rebuilding and 15-point winning margin...
Safe-deposit box No. 4411 at Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis was supposed to hold stock certificates as gilt-edged collateral for ten of the largest margin accounts at Stix & Co., a prestigious St. Louis brokerage house. While investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission looked on, a bank official and an officer of Stix turned matching keys in time-honored fashion. But when the box was removed, it contained a pouch filled with back issues of the Wall Street Journal. Securities worth some $36 million were missing...
Lightweight coach Bob Leahy said he was pleased at the performance of both crews. "The first boat beat the next lightweight crew by nine seconds, which is a pretty comfortable margin," Leahy said. He added, however, "that doesn't mean we don't have anything to worry about...
...Reagan Administration policies came in a nonbinding referendum in Boston. Proposed was an increase in "quality education, public transportation, energy-efficient housing and other essential services-by reducing the amount of our tax dollars spent on nuclear weapons and programs of foreign military intervention." It passed by a comfortable margin...