Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's nine hundred page tax bill, an omnibus measure designed to give a more Republican look to the nation's economic policy, has cleared the House of Representatives and will soon be up for vote in the Senate. Passed by a narrow margin over Democratic proposals, the bill would give the nation an estimated $1.4 billion in tax relief...
...judging rules were violated. If Dave Hawkins lost to Yale's Sandy Gideonse by an inch last year in the 150-yard individual medley, he made it look like a mile in comparison with the margin today. Hal Ulen protested the decision, and in view of the facts he might have protested the officials right into the pool...
...rest of the debate, even the vote, was something, of an anticlimax. By an expected narrow margin (13 votes), the Scelba coalition won the Senate's approval. The margin was sufficient to indicate that Scelba should squeak by in similar fashion in the Chamber of Deputies...
...narrow margin of three votes (45-42), the Senate last week confirmed bumbling Albert C. Beeson as a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Leading the Democratic attack, Alabama's Lister Hill charged that Beeson had "misled and deceived" the Senate Labor Committee in his stumbling, backtracking testimony (TIME, Feb. 15). "Mr. Beeson knowingly and intentionally made no fewer than five positive statements which have proved to be as false as the statements of Ananias," roared West Virginia's Matt Neely. In pleading for Beeson's confirmation, New York's Republican Irving Ives...
...application is complete, the secretaries code all its information in the margin. For instance, if the applicant is unmarried, they might put a number one in the margin; if married, a two. Other relevant material is coded in a similar manner, and the application is sent to the General Service Office in the basement of University Hall, where these numbers are fed into an always disinterested, but never inaccurate IBM machine. It quickly belches forth a white card containing all the information which the applicant had so pain-stakingly provided...