Word: margin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Obviously the margin of Fentrice Driskell and John Burton's election makes the situation difficult. A new election is out of the question and would only waste time and result in low participation...
...unfortunate," said Seton about the Driskell-Burton mail drop. "If they were able to reach all 1,600 freshmen via the mail like that, that might, in part, explain the large margin of victory they...
...some 500 superdelegates (elected officials and party bigwigs loyal to Gore). Bradley has perhaps 20 superdelegates, according to Gore aides. (Bradley advisers wouldn't offer a figure.) And the party has forbidden states to hold winner-take-all primaries, in which a candidate with only a narrow victory margin can rake in most of a state's delegates. That makes it harder for Bradley to win big, as he must do to offset Gore's built-in delegate advantage. In a wild spree of primaries and caucuses, 30 states will vote between March 7 and 14. "Bill...
...Crimson never got closer than 16 points to the Red Raiders, and as the game wore on--and the Harvard players wore down--Colgate continued to pour on the points. The 27-point winning margin was the largest lead of the game...
...upholds the integrity of literature-it upholds the ideals of poetry in which every letter, every word has its exact weight. In which the silence of a stanza break is lead-measured under the page and can be held in the hand. In which the stacked steel of the margin holds off time from the text, makes a mind-haven in the rush of language...