Word: margin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...margin of victory could have been worse. With four events to go, Harvard Coach Maura Costin-Scalise mercifully called off the troops and entered the Harvard swimmers in exhibition categories so that they would not add to the landslide totals...
Brown narrowed the margin to 14-7 on Wayman Caldwell's three-yd. scoring run in the second quarter, but Abbruzzese raced 35 yards down the right side 1:50 into the second half to put Columbia in front...
...seemed to lock up the political future for his party by corralling a solid 59% of voters between 18 and 24 years old. This week Dukakis carried that youngest set, 51% to 49%. The next age group, those between 25 and 34, went for Bush by a margin of 4 points...
...gender gap still yawns, though slightly less so this year. Men voted for Bush by a margin of 10 points, compared with 28 points for Reagan in 1984. Women went for Dukakis by 4 points, while four years ago they supported Reagan by 10 points. The fact that women outnumber men in the electorate helped keep Bush's overall majority of the popular vote to less than half of Reagan's 18- point margin...
Whatever the verdict on Tuesday, whatever the margin of victory, that lingering question has already marred the mantle of legitimacy that would otherwise surround the new President. Nothing, for example, could be more specious than Bush's desperate claims in the waning days of the campaign, "If I win, it will be a mainstream mandate -- that's what this election is all about." A mandate represents a covenant between the candidate and his constituency about what he plans to accomplish. But almost all the causes Bush embraced were both negative and irrelevant to the White House; it would...