Word: margin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although there were some tears at the president's election night gathering, Bush and his aides were composed, with Baker making light of Clinton's substantial margin of victory in the electoral college...
...forget that macroeconomics is practiced on the margin. The enterprise zone will be marginally worse than the area next to it. Yes, some businesses will grow there because startup costs are lower without high taxes and regulation...
Kalkanis won last night's election by a "comfortable margin," according to one council member...
...when her candidate appeared to be coasting to victory, Clinton adviser Susan Thomases walked into a Little Rock strategy session with two charts. One showed Jimmy Carter ahead of Ronald Reagan by four points late in the 1980 race, which the Republican challenger went on to win by a margin of nine. The second display recalled the 1976 contest, in which Carter's seemingly prohibitive advantage over Jerry Ford shrank to two points by Election Day. Thomases' fear: complacency bred by favorable numbers might lead to a November surprise. George Bush's analysts, meanwhile, were also studying the 1976 figures...
...attacks on his character and credibility have reinforced the existing impression of the Arkansan as a slick equivocator. In a TIME/CNN survey taken last week, Clinton's advantage was down to seven points among registered voters (38%, vs. 31% for Bush and 17% for Perot). A month earlier, his margin had been 13 points. When "leaners" who have not quite made up their minds are added to the mix, Clinton's margin rises to eight (41%, compared with 33% for Bush and 19% for Perot). In a smaller TIME/CNN sampling, designed to focus on those most likely to vote, Clinton...