Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This season, however, Harvard stands undefeated at 9-0. The Crimson downed Brown by a 87-53 margin in December--at the same Smith Swimming Center--and that 34-point difference was the closest any team came to the high-flying Crimson all season...
Junior Jeff Peltier proved unbeatable in the 200 backstroke, cruising to victory in a time of 1:53.31. Chris Smith also was a winner, touching first in 500 freestyle, narrowly defeating Penn's Mike Cuccaro by a margin of only .62 seconds...
...diving, sophomore Pat Healy sailed on both boards, taking both the one- and three-meter competitions by a large combined margin of 95 points...
...setting up the SDI project, President Reagan signed a directive requiring that the system be "cost effective at the margin." Translation: adding new defenses must be cheaper than it would cost the Soviets to deploy missiles to counter them. Critics charge that hastily embarking on a smart- rocks system is a way to evade this requirement. "Phased deployment is an effort to obfuscate the 'cost-effective' argument," says Spurgeon Keeny, president of the Arms Control Association. "Supporters will concede that Phase 1 isn't cost effective but will argue that the ultimate, undefined SDI system would be." With so little...
...touted as front runners: Energy Minister Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez, a former governor of the state of Mexico; Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz; and Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Minister of Budget and Planning. The P.R.I., traditionally uses lavish patronage and pork-barrel politics to ensure an impressive margin of victory...