Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lightweight varsity eight trounced Simmons and MIT by a margin of 14 seconds...
...week before. On Thursday evening the Senate approved the aid package by a vote of 53 to 47. While the raid did not alter any Senator's vote, it did quash attempts to expand upon House limits on how and when the money could be used. Although the margin was hardly the bipartisan mandate that Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said he had hoped for, it was a concrete boost for Reagan in his attempt to gain approval from the House when the matter is reconsidered on April 15. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called...
Steitz said the decision came after a five-year research period in which 20 conferences experimented with the three-point shot. He said research showed coaches approved the three-point goal by a two-to-one margin...
...meet next fall, its agenda will likely include not only general investment policy guidelines, but also consideration of an anticipated Undergraduate Council report on the council's student referendum on divestment, said committee member Wilson C. McLeod, a first-year Law School student. By an almost two-to-one margin, students participating in the referendum supported total divestment from companies doing business in South Africa...
After special envoy Philip Habib maintained that President Reagan's proposal has strong support among Central American officials, the White House said calls and wires had shown that by a better than 2-1 margin, people were responding positively to Reagan's nationally broadcast Sunday night appeal for support for the aid program...