Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles Times survey showed the Republican ticket leading the Democratic ticket 44 percent to 41 percent. But when Bush and Dukakis were pitted against against each other without their respective running mates, Bush led 48-39. A 5 point margin of error closed the difference in both cases...
...mood is far more serious in the rehearsal rooms of the 51 quartets that are vying for the international championship. Singers pace, vocalizing bits and pieces of their lyrics, all the while sipping glass after glass of water to lubricate their cords. Among such polished foursomes, the margin of victory will hang on fine points: how well a group conveys the mood and emotion of a song and how precisely its singers blend their four notes to produce a fifth, wholly new harmonic. That high, ringing fifth tone -- the overtone, or "bird" -- is the grail that every barbershop quartet strives...
...margin of victory was even greater according to a count by the opposition coalition, which waged an effective grassroots campaign...
With two minutes left and the score tied at one, Springfield forward Jen Carey drove home a corner shot, providing the margin for victory...
...poll, conducted Saturday through Monday, had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points...