Word: margin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...church panel, echoing Fletcher's approach, declared that "sexual expression . . . cannot be confined to the married and about-to-be-married." Irate traditionalists got that year's assembly to reaffirm the sinfulness of adultery, fornication and homosexual practice, but their motion passed by a paper-thin margin...
...star. Home Depot has grown from four stores with sales of $22 million in 1980 to 145 stores that rang up $3.8 billion last year. Margaret McKenna, who watches the $110 billion-a-year home-improvement and -repair business for Wall Street's Smith Barney, sees "a wide, wide margin in the industry between Home Depot and everybody else...
...Dublin, Ireland native's single throw met five goals at once. Sweeney's competitors were left in a fight for second place, more than 17 feet back. The 56-year-old competition had a new record--by a healthy margin of four feet. The Lowell House thrower also captured his second Heps discus title two years after winning his first crown...
...small-screen phenoms as L.A. Law, Cheers and The Cosby Show entered American living rooms and hearts during King Brandon's reign, transforming NBC from a Johnny Carson joke into the industry powerhouse. NBC has led the networks in the annual ratings regatta since 1985, but this year's margin of victory (over No. 2 ABC) was as thin as a soap opera's plot...
Could the discontents topple the ITT board, which, like most boards, is used to being re-elected by an overwhelming margin? That seems unlikely this year. But the Calpers-led protest could be picking up support. Neuberger & Berman, a Manhattan firm that manages more ITT stock than any other institution -- 2 million shares -- is not happy. Wrote Neuberger portfolio manager Marvin Schwartz in a letter to Araskog: "One cannot escape noting that ITT stock has been an extremely dismal performer in the marketplace over the past 11-year period." That sorry record, Schwartz declared, "suggests that knowledgeable institutional investors...