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Word: margin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Real Estate, Inc. bases its request for this increase on the following two factors: 1) they claim to have spent $83,000 last year on improvements to the exterior of the building; 2) they seek to double the already substantial profit margin on our building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HRE | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

Next morning four MiGs attack the BM-13 and Oerlikon positions, dropping their tons of high explosives and vanishing as quickly as they appeared. The bombs miss by a wide margin. Less than an hour later mujahedin rockets are once again falling on Barikot. The war goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: Barrage and Counterbarrage | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...annual conference of Britain's Liberal Party last week in the resort city of Eastbourne, those eight words provoked an impassioned three-hour debate, led to a humiliating defeat for Party Leader David Steel and could quite conceivably affect the course of the next general election. By the thin margin of 27 votes, out of a total 1,277 cast, delegates passed a motion calling on Britain to assume a more active role in bolstering NATO, "providing that such a defense capability is non-nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Breaking Ranks | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

However, Harvard had not been shut out by a non-league opponent since 1977, when Massachusetts bested the Crimson, 17-0. Harvard's 41-point margin of loss Saturday was its largest since the 1964 season, when Dartmouth shellacked Harvard...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Holy Fat Men, Batman | 9/30/1986 | See Source »

...sobering mistake-filled defeat, which marked the Crimson's widest losing margin ever in the Joe Restic era, evened Harvard's record at 1-1 (1-0 Ivy) on the young season...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: It's No Miracle: Holy Cross Wins Big | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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