Word: margin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poll, conducted on October 21, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.8 percent overall...
...poll at Harvard, conducted on October 21, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percent...
McKay, who ran for chair along with Spyros Poulios '95, contested the election and a vote supervised the next day by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 declared Poulios and McKay the winners by a margin of nine to four...
...concrete emotion -- Walcott rarely generalizes or resorts to abstractions -- and yet it echoes well beyond its given point of utterance. At their most intense, Walcott's 10 volumes of poetry convey all the strangeness and exotica of island life -- of poor, forgotten people surrounded by water on a margin of the earth -- and make the whole spectacle as familiar as the view across the street...
...until Sunday night to accommodate this week's cover story. We are used to stretching our deadlines occasionally in order to include late-breaking major news, but covering Sunday's showdown in St. Louis, Missouri, required considerable last-minute coordination and planning. Like the candidates, we had virtually no margin for error...