Word: margin
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Harvard outshot the Wildcats in the contest by a 35-29 margin and dominated the ground ball totals as well, 46-31. In man-up situations, the Crimson continued to do well, scoring three time in seven attempts. UNH was 1-for-3 on the power play...
...Radcliffe varsity heavyweight crew asserted its dominance of the Charles River Saturday when it blew river rival Boston University out of its native waters by a humiliating 12-second margin...
There is no discussion of how numbers were assigned to vague notions like frustration and instability, or any margin of error (as in the sciences) for such a decimal figure. As far as I am concerned, that sentence is nonsense. Huntington gives similar "correlations" to two or three significant figures, pages 39 through 53, so the one I have mentioned is not an isolated example...
...majority were allowed to vote, according to a poll by Johannesburg's largest black newspaper, the Sowetan, the winner by a substantial margin would be Nelson Mandela, an imprisoned leader of the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.) whose wife Winnie has become an international symbol of protest. Barred from the ballot, the blacks turned to another kind of action last week in one of the worst outbursts of violence since a state of emergency was declared last June...
...last rally, putting in two goals by Rob Griffith and Kramer only 27 seconds apart with 10 minutes left in the game, but Adelphi responded with two more of its own to wrap up the contest. Another tally by Raymond with less than three minutes left brought the final margin to five...