Word: margin
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PRESIDENT Bush got what he wanted this weekend--Congressional authorization to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait by military force. Though his margin of victory was anything but decisive (just five votes in the Senate), the President has accomplished his aim of presenting a hard-line "united front" against Saddam Hussein...
Many in Congress agree. "It is awfully difficult for us to do anything of substance without creating the impression of congressional and national divisiveness," says Indiana Democratic Representative Lee Hamilton. "The fact is, in an instance like this, Congress operates on the margin." The reasons for that may be more political than patriotic. If Bush opts for war -- and if Iraq is quickly dislodged from Kuwait at acceptable cost -- the President's popularity will skyrocket. A Congress that tries to thwart him now could later appear guilty of unseemly partisanship. Dovish Democrats in particular would see themselves labeled once again...
...site of the party's 1992 convention is -- George Bush. The transplanted Texan is known to want to hold his coronation in Houston. But G.O.P. advisers contend that having the event in California could boost Bush's chances for carrying the state, which he won by a margin of just 3.5% in 1988. Thanks to its population boom, the Golden State will provide 54 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency...
...have a very small margin for error," Roby said. "We're small. We don't have a lot of depth...
...appeared that Germans felt they had had, at least for a while, enough of history on a grand scale. Christian Democratic Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 60, and his coalition partners took a 19-point lead into the election, seemingly assuring them of victory over Social Democrat Oskar Lafontaine. The anticipated margin was large enough to leave Christian Democrats fretting that it might be eroded by a low voter turnout. Said a civil servant in the Rhineland: "It's certainly no Schicksalswahl ((election of destiny...