Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...analogy--sometimes used to legitimate the "majority" results of divestment opinion polls--is that virtually everyone called President Reagan's re-election margin a "landslide majority" when in fact it was only a plurality of all potential voters. Nobody questioned the legitimacy of his election even though a majority of the American people did not say "we want you as President." So, activists contend, why should we question the legitimacy of divestment poll results...
...Crimson's competition hasn't looked invincible; Princeton lost two weeks ago for the first time since 1984 to a surprisingly strong Rutgers crew by a .01 second margin...
...women's JV squad also beat Dartmouth decisively, by a 16 second margin...
Ronald Reagan, who knows a thing or two about landslides, telephoned from the White House to confess to the triumphant candidate that he was "envious of your margin of victory." By a lopsided 2,166 votes to 799, Actor Clint - Eastwood, 55, had seized city hall in Carmelby-the-Sea (pop. 4,800) with about as much authority as his famous movie detective Dirty Harry uses in seizing bad guys. Incumbent Charlotte Townsend offered her concession about an hour after the polls had closed...
...test missions were so hazardous that they were equipped with ejection seats. He also commanded a 1983 flight of the doomed Challenger. In a speech televised from Houston's Johnson Space Center to NASA employees around the nation, Truly promised that future shuttle launches would provide "an acceptable margin of safety to the vehicle and crew...