Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet leader took on the adventurist radicals, criticizing them for racing "like firemen, with clanging bells" to abolish the constitutional guarantee of Communist Party rule. The Congress decided not to take up the contentious question of Article 6, voting 1,138 to 839, with 56 abstentions. But the margin of victory was not so comfortable that the Kremlin could indefinitely ignore the East European-like rush to multiparty politics. Boris Yeltsin, the ex-Politburo member turned radical populist, urged the leadership to learn the lessons of East Germany, where reforms were delayed so long that they were eventually accomplished within...
Last year, nailbiters were the norm for the Harvard men's basketball team. Sixteen of its last 21 games finished with a margin of fewer than 10 points or went to overtime. Nine games were decided in the last minute and four were overtime decisions...
...second half, an 18-3 run by Holy Crosstransformed a feasible 12-point Harvard deficitinto an intimidating 27-point margin. With justover four minutes left, the game was out of reach...
Harvard jumped out to an early 10-2 lead and went into the locker room with a comfortable margin, 41-25. Hartford (1-4) refused to die in the second half, however, chipping away at Harvard's lead and pulling to within two points...
...Captain Fred Schernecker was only 2-for-9 from the field last night and scoff. But then he might notice in the description of the game that it was Schernecker's three-point jumper with two minutes remaining in the game that gave the Crimson a comfortable six-point margin...