Word: margin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That block of undecided liberal voters mayprove crucial for Silber, who has led Weld by onlya small margin in recent polls. "Whether he winsor loses depends on whether he can attractprogressive voters," says Boston politicalconsultant Thomas Kiley...
...these student leaders, it is the Senate campaign that is the hot race of this election year--despite the fact that Democratic incumbent John F. Kerry is leading his Republican challenger by a comfortable margin in most polls...
...second half, Harvard notched a penalty kick and a try to provide the final margin. Ben Frickel picked up the try after a well-placed defensive kick pinning Dartmouth deep in its "coffin corner," to use American football terms...
...between events leading to Los Alamos and an obscure domestic tragedy in Kansas City is not readily apparent -- except to the author. Each story, writes Rhodes, "focuses on one or several men of character who confront violence, resist it or endure it and discover beyond its inhumanity a narrow margin of hope...
Although most newspapers this year will retain about 15% of their revenues as profit, a margin that many other businesses would envy, and although the most acute financial problems seem to be cyclical, many editors and analysts fear that the industry faces long-term trouble. The biggest problem is a steady decline in reader interest. In 1946, for every 100 U.S. households, there were 133 newspapers sold. Today that figure is halved. Even more worrisome is the sharp decline in reader interest among the under-30 generation, despite attention getters ranging from high-tech graphics to more coverage of rock...