Word: marginality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Margin for Error. Such cases would raise perplexing professional problems under the most clinical of circumstances. Is an accused criminal presently sick? Psychologists know that batteries of tests, such as the Rorschach and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory used on Sirhan, show only the probability that a man has certain personality traits; they have a built-in margin of error when applied to one individual. Even though experts may agree on the diagnosis of a man's present state, they often have difficulties when pressed to project it back to his condition at the time of the crime. The link...
Usury Ceilings. In many states, certain types of loans are becoming almost unavailable because of the low ceilings on interest rates set by usury laws. Margin loans for stock purchases are drying up in such places as Vermont and New Hampshire. In Michigan, which has a 7% usury limit, unincorporated businessmen and partnerships can no longer legally borrow at a rate that lenders will accept. Illinois lenders shun home loans because of the state's 7% ceiling; now the legislature is moving to up the limit...
...seconds before touchdown. The runway is really only a section of the road between Uli and Mgbidi that has been widened to 75 feet. "That's a nice wide road," comments one flyer, "but a damned narrow runway." Airplanes' wheels have no more than a 20-ft. margin on either side. Wingtips brush treetops, and to avoid running out of runway, pilots reverse their propellers and "stand" on their brakes. Not infrequently, an incoming pilot discovers that the control tower has blithely sent a plane out above or below...
George Bell narrowed Harvard's lead with a goal at 12:24, but DeMichele tipped Steve Owen's centering pass into the net for a 4-2 Crimson margin...
...wide, compared with 22 in. for a Boeing 747. Fully loaded, the Concorde will be able to cover about 4,000 miles, and Paris-New York is a 3,700-mile flight. That leaves no leeway for meeting international standards, which call for a 25% fuel-safety margin. Either the Concorde's range will have to be extended or the plane will have to be restricted to lighter loads...