Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular thought, so we asked our regular polling firm, Connecticut-based Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, to conduct a survey. On one day, 25 interviewers telephoned 500 people at random and asked them 22 questions for an average of six minutes. The results were put into computers and tabulated, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5% taken into account. They were then sent to Nation editor Robert T. Zintl in the Time & Life Building in Manhattan, where they were incorporated into the cover story...
...union which represents Harvard's dining hall workers completed contract negotiations with the University last Friday, and a 75-member employee committee endorsed the new agreement by an overwhelming margin...
...lawyer, David Cole, was slightly less inflammatory: "If free expression is to exist in this country, people must be as free to burn the flag as they are to wave it." Civil liberties advocates approved, though some were worried that the case had been decided by so narrow a margin. "James Madison, who wrote the First Amendment, would have his heart warmed by the decision," said David O'Brien, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia, "but he would have been appalled that it was a 5-to-4 vote...
...Crimson outlasted a six-boat field to win the Herschede Cup for the national title. Trailing Northeastern and Penn, Harvard stroked a power 20 after the 1000-meter mark, pulling out to a half-boat length lead. The Crimson extended its lead to the final margin of victory by the 1500-meter mark...
Supporters of the amendment denied racist motives, and claimed that many students opposed the amendment--which lost by a margin of 40 percent--because it was associated with the relatively conservative Federalist Society...