Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really important to win a league game," senior Co-Captain John Greenburg said. "To win by this large a margin is practically unheard of. This helps us not only in the seedings for the New England Championships, but psychologically as well...
...Boston Globe-KRC Research survey fielded the opinions of first-year students at a dozen public and private colleges in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont. It included no margin of error because the survey was a sampling rather than a scientific poll, the paper said...
...million to a high of $100 million on this year's sales of $200 million. When the costs of overhead and continuing research are factored in, "the average operating profit from all the sales of Burroughs Wellcome is 20%. Though they have a 30% operating profit margin on AZT, it's still within the bounds of the pharmaceutical industry," says Jo Walton, who follows the industry for Shearson Lehman Hutton in London...
...squads followed a similar script in the second stanza, as the Engineers equalled their opening-period barrage of two shots on goal. Harvard added two more tallies for the final margin--one on a crisp passing play from Mills to Enge to D'Onofrio, the other on a nifty move past two defenders and subsequent blast into the upper corner by reserve midfielder Don "Day-Glo" Daigle to close out the scoring...
...injured in last week's incidents, but the mechanical glitches renewed concern about whether maintenance crews that are stretched thin can maintain an adequate margin of safety. Not only do federal rules require modifications on thousands of older jets but the airlines are expanding their fleets with new, technically complicated planes. The ATA report, based on a survey of 21 major airlines, found that carriers have been unable to find mechanics for 4,000 vacancies out of a total of 69,000 positions. More troubling, the number of applicants for mechanic's positions is declining...