Word: marginalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bother us that Blooming-dales has such a package? If Blooming-dales really wanted to make a patriotic contribution to the men and women at the front, it could have used its resources to send any gifts (children's letters, bibles, souvenirs from home), not just $60, high profit-margin ones, to Saudi Arabia. "Operation Desert Shield from Home" is, in all honesty, callous...
Serotta, who won one game and lost one, said he was disappointed that his team did not win by a bigger margin. "I think we should have beaten them worse than that," he said. "I was hopelessly out of practice, and when you're out of practice your reflexes are slower...
...trouble. Dianne Feinstein had a lot going for her: a strong record as San Francisco's mayor from 1978 to 1988, a dynamic campaign style and a feistiness that Republican Senator Pete Wilson lacked. Yet Wilson, who enjoyed strong White House backing, beat her by a comfortable 2.6% margin. His victory ensured that California's Democratic-controlled state legislature will not have complete say over redistricting in 1992, when the state will gain seven congressional seats...
...biggest setback came in California, where Proposition 128, Big Green, was defeated almost 2 to 1. A second measure, Forests Forever, designed to ban clear-cutting and save old-growth forests and redwoods, lost by a narrower margin. In part they fell victim to a backlash against the sheer number of ballot propositions -- 28 in all -- that Californians had to contend with in the voting booth. "They voted no on everything," laments Lynn Sadler, campaign director for Forests Forever. Big Green was a ballot buster all by itself, a 16,000-word laundry list of aims, including...
...electorate and normally vote Democratic. That he got. But Gantt also needed at least 40% of North Carolina's whites. There he fell short by five points. The fractious campaign produced a huge vote in white precincts and an overall total of 52% to 48% in Helms' favor. The margin, like the strategy, was almost identical to Helms' three previous victories...