Word: marginalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Researchers previously believed that the Hubble constant was between 50 and 100. The new research of Cepheids gives an estimate of 70 for the constant, with a 10 percent margin of error...
...while the near-record fifth title was sweet in itself, it was made sweeter by the fact that it was the closest margin of victory for Cabot since the run began...
...narrowest margin in five years," said Jamil A. Ghani '99, captain of the Cabot A-league volleyball team. "In past years, the margin was 500 points...
Warren Buffett, the investor and head of Berkshire Hathaway, noted some of these trends two years ago, when his Geico insurance subsidiary doubled its projected 4% profit margin because the number of claims was decreasing. Last year margins were well over the target again. Buffett warned that such stellar results would not persist because they would soon invite competition. That's what has happened, and now he expects the industry's margins to contract as insurers cut prices to battle for market share--bad news if you own the stocks but not if you're a policyholder...
...MARGIN OF SAFETY For years, doctors have tried to spare women from having a mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ, a noninvasive form of breast cancer. Instead, they cut out only the cancerous cells and then irradiate the breast. Now a major report shows that women may be able to avoid radiation too--as long as doctors remove a 1/2-in. margin of tissue along with the problem cells. That sure beats getting zapped, which is expensive, time consuming and may make future mammograms difficult to read...