Word: margin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overwhelming margin, Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 becomes the second popularly elected Undergraduate Council president and the first woman ever to lead the council. On Dec. 15, a council referendum on budget allocations, moved to a separate date to prevent candidates from influencing the results, fails due to insufficient turnout...
...major fan of highway construction, sought to boost the $125 billion budget agreement for highway improvement and construction by about 10 percent. The GOP's top brass joined in the fray, siding with the White House and twisting enough arms to defeat the amendment by a slim 216 - 214 margin. After the House passed the bill, Trent Lott managed to block the cigarette tax proposal by Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Edward Kennedy, warning that he would pull the budget-balancing pact off the Senate floor if the changes were approved. "The President is not about to see all that...
Despite the 15-run margin of victory, however, the game was closer than it appears. In fact, it looked early on as if it would be a long day for the Crimson...
Radcliffe had an outstanding fall season, outscoring its opponents by a whopping 279-15 margin. The team tallied a perfect record during the NERFU regular season to set up a match against UVM in the league semifinals...
...even if Harvard (5-8, 1-5 Ivy) went into autopilot sometimes, it was the first time all season that the team could go into autopilot. The eight-goal margin was the Crimson's largest of the season--just as the 17 goals was its highest total--and Harvard did not trail after the game's first eight minutes...