Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furcolo's margin of victory, in a primary where more than two-thirds of his party participated, is taken as an encouraging sign by Democrats bent on recapturing Beacon Hill. With Democratic registration up 60,000 over 1952 and GOP totals down by 7,000, the Democrats are looking forward to an election in which their party regularity will be a significant asset. But the members of each faction total only 700,000 each in a constituency of two and a half million registered voters, so the independent--who in Massachusetts is typically the sought-after member of an ethnic...
...year habit is not broken easily, and for all the restiveness, most of the nation's estimated 3,500,000 Negro votes probably will go to Adlai Stevenson again this year. The 75% margin by which he won them in 1952, however, is now expected to be reduced to something like 60%-65%. In states where national or local races are close, e.g., Missouri, California. Michigan, Ohio, New York, such a pro-Republican shift could be all-important...
...great majority of retailers contend that seven-day selling is indefensible in the face of nationwide pressure for a four-day week. While small businessmen say they are forced to open Sundays to meet low-margin chain-store competition, many chain operators have found that Sunday volume has become too big to jettison. A big Arkansas supermarket operator who returned to the six-day week found that receipts dropped 40%. In Indianapolis, after agreeing to close on Sundays, the Kroger chain was forced to reopen nine of its 16 markets...
This touchback gave Tech an 8-7 victory, while the faux pas committed by the Crimson runners merely lessened the cross-country team's margin of victory to 14 and 50 points over Columbia and Penn respectively. The varsity...
...last big obstacle, "Heartbreak Hill", Iglesias had increased his to almost a quarter of a mile, with Reider and Schlaeppi still ahead of Abramawitz. Reider steadily pushed ahead of Schlaeppi to finish second, unofficially by a comfortable margin...