Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's Dick Button held only a slight lead in defense of his North American Men's Figure Skating Championship after completion of the compulsory figures. Button had only a 15.8 point margin over runner-up James Grogan...
David M. Little '18, master of Adams House, was elected vice-president of Boston's Harvard Club at the club's annual business meeting Wednesday night. At the same time, an earlier proposal to make Yale and Princeton graduates eligible for membership was voted down by a narrow margin...
Majorities in both schools, however, agreed that "The United States should encourage the United Nations to take action to end the war in Korea immediately." Cliffdwellers, by a nine-vote, margin, rejected only one proposal: "An immediate cease-fire and withdrawal of all foreign troops in Korea...
...will bring about some price cuts. But the likelihood is that there will be more increases than cuts. Reason: many raw-material dealers and wholesalers jacked up prices before the general price freeze of Jan. 25, and the marked-up goods are already on retailers' shelves. Under the margin control plan, the increases will be passed on to the consumer. This is the "thawing" which Di Salle admitted would come during the transfer from the icebox to the deep freeze...
...hopefully thinks that once the margin control plan really settles into operation, it will result in fairer, more workable control of prices than specific ceilings and pave the way for similar margin controls in other levels (e.g., wholesale) and other sectors of the economy. Later on, Di Salle also plans to review all margin controls, and order rollbacks where retailers have boosted their markups in anticipation of the order...