Word: marginalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, my margin of victory over the former incumbent in the 1988 Democratic primary was 49 votes, not 51 as reported in your story. I was subsequently successful on two occasions--the general election and a vote recount...
...mathematics called probability theory, whose most obvious application is to gambling. The concepts are commonly introduced in statistic classes with reference to coin tosses and dice. It is hardly an exact science. Roughly one time out of 20 the typical pollster's finding will fall outside the stated margin of error. And even that assumes a flawless sample that will be exactly representative of the whole population and a 100% response rate -- conditions that are never met in the real world. Accurate polling also supposes that the questions are unambiguous, the interviewers perfectly interchangeable, and that the answers are freighted...
...first time this season, the Crimson squads fell prey to the injury bug last Saturday at Brown. Unable to perform up to their full potential, the men fell to Dartmouth and Brown by a 79-59-34 margin. The women were slightly more successful, totaling 51 points to place second, ahead of Dartmouth's 30-point total but behind Brown's winning 67-point effort...
Harvard got off to a slow start, shooting blanks for the first three and a half minutes to find itself down, 6-0. But the Crimson turned it around quickly, reeling off 11 straight points and never looking back. Harvard entered the locker room with a comfortable 40-29 margin, a lead Coach Kathy Delaney Smith's squad had no intention of giving...
Murphy trails former Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti by a slim margin in most state polls. State Rep. John H. Flood (D-Canton) and Silber both are expected to come out far behind the two frontrunners in the race for delegates. But if a large number of uncommitted delegates won seats last weekend, candidates will have a chance to woo them to their side before the convention...