Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race for the sixth seat was also close. Henrietta Davis, Denise Simmons, and John T. St. George '70-'72 were neck and neck until the end of the sixth count when Davis and St. George edged out Simmons by a narrow margin of less than 100 votes...
Since then, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has imposed a limit on the amount that an index futures contract can rise or fall in a single day. The Merc has also increased the amount of cash, or margin, that speculators must put on deposit. Congressional investigators are talking about additional safeguards to limit the number of futures contracts a broker could execute in a day. But at hearings last week in Washington, Merc President William Brodsky argued that the sale of index futures had a stabilizing effect on Black Monday. Without that escape valve, Brodsky suggested, the Dow would have fallen...
Holy Cross has beaten its opponents by a count of 391-91. The Crusaders' average margin of victory is 40 points...
...League has sent two teams to the slaughter. Dartmouth took a dive, 62-23, and Brown rolled over, 41-0. In the Brown game, the Cross used a hurry-up offense in the last two minutes simply to ensure a 40-point margin of victory...
...Republican has been elected governor of Kentucky in 20 years, and voters appeared to be granting Wilkinson's wish for more than 62.8 percent of the vote and the greatest victory margin in state history. Wilkinson asked for the margin to increase his clout with the legislature...