Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyer Arturo Frondizi, 49, leader of the left-wing faction of the sprawling, middle-of-the-road Radical Party, won Argentina's presidential election this week after the first truly free campaign the country had known in 30 years. With a growing five-to-three margin in the key districts, he apparently handed his opponent, moderate Radical Ricardo Balbin, a decisive licking...
This time around, Harvard won, again by a 5 to 4 margin. Bennett lost one bout and won his second, 5-0. Choat dropped two bouts to Tech and won his third, 5-2. DeMan lost one bout, but went on to win two more...
Stomma appealed to Wladyslaw Gomulka's ruling Communists "to resurrect the energies of the nation" by trusting it with a "margin of freedom." To restore the "aim of life and joy in living" that might allay the "bitterness, nihilism, hooliganism and drunkenness" in the land, said Stomma, "confidence must be mutual-of people in authorities, but even more so of the authorities in the people. Only in this way can Polish society be united...
Psychology & Reserves. Actually, bankers viewed the discount cut as a cautious psychological move, like the cut in stock margin requirements (TIME, Jan. 27), rather than any real easing of credit. Said Board Chairman John Sibley of the Trust Co. of Georgia: "The impact is on the public mind, not the economy as such." Over the last few months, the Fed's only real attempt to pump more credit into the economy has been to allow bank reserves (and thus their lending ability) to increase by some $500 million, partly through open market purchases of Treasury securities...
...quite sure why the Federal Reserve had lowered margin requirements at this time. Wall Street looked on it as a move to bolster investors' confidence, although the Fed insisted that its motives were not that at all. Said a Fed spokesman: "Our only interest is in loosening a credit restraint that was no longer needed." Actually, the higher margin has not been needed for months. Since last June, stock-market credit affected by margin requirements has declined steadily, at latest report stood at only $5,218,000,000, the lowest point in three years and less than...