Word: margin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That 10-point win was a comparative nail-biter for the Crimson. Harvard isn't just beating its Ivy opponents, it is humiliating them. Thanks to last Friday's 79-34 squeaker at Princeton, the average margin of difference has ballooned to 21 a game...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The razor-thin margin opposing a balanced budget amendment in the Senate got a lot thinner Tuesday when Louisiana freshman Democrat Mary Landrieu announced she would vote with the GOP on the bill despite some reservations about its language. With Landrieu's qualified support, the Republican leadership is just one vote shy of the needed two-thirds supermajority. With all 55 Republicans and 11 Democrats supporting the measure, the move means that freshman Senator Robert Torricelli will cast the deciding ballot in a vote that could come as early as next Friday. The New Jersey Democrat is being...
Getting outshot by an embarrassing 43-19 margin, Harvard (9-15-2, 8-9-2 ECAC) was outskated and outscored by Clarkson (21-8-0, 14-5-0), 4-2 at Cheel Arena...
...puck well over the net and out of harm's way. Clarkson's own mistakes and the outstanding play of Prestifilippo, however, was all that could contain the Knights' offense as by the end of the second period, the Knights were outshooting the Crimson by a mammoth 30-14 margin...
...Scott Montgomery of the Coop explained it: a certain number of books are ordered for a course based on an estimate (and if the estimating process is at all similar to the one that assigns classes to rooms based on expected enrollment, it seems likely there is a large margin of error here). Everyone decides to take this course. Everyone comes in and buys all the books. The Coop orders more books for all the students who find the class late. Then everyone drops the course and returns the books. Now the Coop has paid for an extra shipment...