Word: margin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DeLone, Henikoff, Erika Elmuts, Pollock and Parker prevailed in first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth singles to provide the final margin of victory...
...again, and freshman attacker Francie Walton and senior midfielder Tracy Hackeling followed suit, building the Crimson's lead to 6--2. Cornell scored twice before the end of the first stanza, but thanks Gaffney and junior middie Buffy Hansen, Harvard was able to maintain a relatively comfortable four--goal margin...
This is the first time in four years that the Radcliffe junior varsity boat has been able to out-row arch-rival Yale, and it did so with class on Saturday. Radcliffe crossed the line in 7:17.8, defeating Yale by an enormous margin of 28 seconds...
...Massey- Ferguson harvesting combine. Iranian soldiers drive up the road, throwing bread to the Kurds and starting a frantic scramble that sends more than one person rolling down a steep embankment. When the crowd parts, old men patiently pick the crumbs out of rocks and mud, their only margin of survival. Whenever the refugees discover a reporter in their midst, they crowd around and find someone to express their fury in English: "Why did George Bush do this to us? He has betrayed us. Why did he tell us to rise up? Why didn't he shoot down the helicopters...
...also a high-risk exploit. Unlike most sports, bungee jumping allows zero margin for error. In a free fall, a mistake or an equipment failure would almost certainly mean a jumper's doom. But talk to any bungee enthusiast, and he'll tell you about the chills and thrills -- not the spills...