Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fourteen Point Margin...
...only to work in the short run, but they also show promise of helping to solve the long-range problem. The Republican plan keeps constant pressure on the farmer to cut production of non-profitable crops. In the short run the farmer might produce more, but as his margin of profit gets lower and lower, he will either leave the farm, or encourage his children to. The farmer who will move first is the one who is most inefficient, usually the family farmer...
...meet shapes up, Columbia must hope for first and second places, a doubtful proposition with the return of the Crimson's aces Pete Reider and Dave Norris to form. The varsity has the depth of the three teams, and this depth should provide the margin of victory although the course is five miles long, eight-tenths of a mile longer than the varsity's home Franklin Park course...
...holding the line by playing up the rent control issue. These precincts are vital for either side to win. Stevenson supporters figure that he must carry Boston by at least 125,000 votes if he is to secure the state's 16 electoral votes. In 1952, Stevenson had a margin of only 67,000 votes in Boston and, as a result, Eisenhower with his provincial support carried the state by a slim margin. An additional 3 votes per precinct might well have done the trick in Massachusetts...
Thousands cheered at the Labor Party Conference at seaside Blackpool when a teller recited the vote that made Bevan party treasurer (by a margin of 274,000 over Candidate George E. Brown). The truth was that the cheers were more for a party decision than for ruddy, white-thatched Nye Bevan himself. Said a Mine Union leader: "We thought he'd be better cornered in office than left wild outside." Sighed a delegate: "Phew, unity at last...