Word: margin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their views of Hillary; but among the remainder, almost twice as many said they would vote against Clinton (14%) as for him (9%) based on their opinion of his wife. If the Hillary factor can mean the difference of a couple of percentage points, it could provide a critical margin in a close election...
...even doom has nuances, and like Africa it has a thousand layers of meaning. The "margin" of one thing is also the center of something else. Africa has its own "centers," its resources of vitality and resilience. It operates by its own inner dynamics and metaphysics. Africa looks hopeless, but it is not. In many ways the continent is headed in the right direction for the first time in centuries. Real changes for the better are occurring. Africa is evolving African solutions...
...G.O.P. to reconsider: since 1880, no Republican has captured the White House without winning California -- and no Republican in modern times has taken the state without amassing a huge plurality in Orange County. In 1988, Bush's Orange plurality of 317,000 votes represented 90% of his statewide margin...
...peacetime defense spending as, in effect, a make-work jobs program -- an effective pitch in a state with a large aerospace industry. But once again, the President's timing was unfortunate. He arrived just as a newly published statewide poll put him 34 points behind Clinton, the most lopsided margin in that state's polling history. Then Bush's message was overshadowed by the release of a new economic report showing that gross domestic product grew only 1.4% in the second quarter -- half the rate of the previous quarter. Even Bush advisers concede that is not sufficient to reduce unemployment...
...whirl of sports science. Fast disappearing are the days when an elite athlete was simply the product of hard work, a gruff coach and a little luck. Today science has become an indispensable part of the formula for more and more world-class competitors, who find that the margin between gold and silver is often a centimeter or a hundredth of a second. Helping mold athletes today is a growing army of specialists -- from physiologists and psychologists to nutritionists and biomechanists. Result: athletes who are training not just harder but smarter. With some players already working seven hours...