Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union Labor News, bought a half-interest in a printing plant in Waterloo (pop. 1,667). In 1950 he put on a handshaking campaign for the state assembly, ousted a six-term incumbent in the Democratic primary and later beat the Republican candidate by a 2-1 margin. He went on to write a record as a diligent researcher into tax problems, a highroad critic of high-riding Joe McCarthy and a smiling sort who took defeat good-naturedly. The defeats: in 1952 for governor, by Walter Kohler. by 400,000 votes; in 1954 for governor, by Walter Kohler...
...address the businessmen's powerful Institute of Directors, half a dozen businessmen quit in disgust. Cousins warned the businessmen that labor is willing to make sacrifices if everyone else is, but it is "insulting to talk about equality of sacrifice to men who know full well their safety margin is a fraction of that enjoyed by others." He adds: "Great Britain is still the place where more industrial disputes are settled by common sense than any other means...
While underestimating outgo by a wide margin, Social Security actuaries have also overestimated collections. In the past fiscal year the experts predicted that collections would be $7.3 billion, payments $6.8 billion. Instead, collections were only $7 billion, while payments exceeded that. For the current year officials had estimated collections of $7.3 billion. This has already been scaled down to $7.1 billion. Next year they had hoped for $7.5 billion, but even with the increase in the total working population, it now appears that they will get only $7.2 billion...
...critical problem: how to keep the bomber from being destroyed by the effects of its own thermonuclear bomb. The toss-bombing technique (TIME, Sept. 24), which projects the bomb forward and upward while the bomber turns on its back and gets away, does not give a big margin of safety in the case of high-yield bombs. But if the pod is engineered as an air-to-ground missile with rocket propulsion of its own, it can be launched while the Hustler is many miles away from the target. While it is still curving through the air, the Hustler will...
...when told that the British collected assagais, ancestral sabers, golf clubs, and Indian Mutiny rifles, and chuckle when reminded that only yesterday the Germans were hatching elaborate plans for kidnapping the Duke of Windsor out of Portugal. For beneath the fun, Fleming makes clear how narrow was the margin of victory...