Word: margin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Councillors decided by an 8-1 margin to accept the September 26 proposal of Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 to renew the contract. Only Councillor Katherine Triantafillou voted against the extension...
...lengthy parliamentary debate over the issue began with a motion to hold nominations and elections next week to replace all 11 members of the house committee's governing board. But that motion failed by a 29-17 margin...
...failure to pull away from Bush may have less to do with her performance than with the state's shift toward the G.O.P. Since her election, Texas' most heavily Republican counties have added 120,000 voters to the rolls -- and Richards' 1990 margin of victory was only 100,000. In fact, she might have lost then, had her opponent, bumptious millionaire Clayton Williams, not compared rape to the weather ("If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it") and forfeited tens of thousands of votes by otherwise Republican-leaning women...
...portray Kennedy, first elected in 1962, as an agent of change. "There is not a single, solitary member of the U.S. Senate more interested in new ideas than he is," Clinton told a roaring high school audience. Clinton's pat-on-the-back occurred as Kennedy's poll margin over businessman and G.O.P. candidate Mitt Romney grew to 10 points. A Boston Herald-WCVB-TV poll, conducted this week, showed 50% of the registered voters backing Kennedy and 40% behind Romney, with a margin of error of 4.9%. A month ago, a poll had them neck and neck...
Instead, polls show Weld winning by a two-to-one margin over any of his potential opponents...