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Husky forward Eric Ortlip banged home his own rebound for a power-play goal six minutes later, increasing the margin to 3-1, and Harvard never seriously threatened for the remainder of the game...
...Clean Elections Law, a ballot initiative that was directly approved by Massachusetts voters by a 2-to-1 margin in 1998, would encourage more competition in state political races by providing public funds to candidates who, having met certain standards of popularity, agree to spending limits for their campaigns. This seeks to remedy a political climate where challenges to incumbent state representatives and senators are extremely rare. The law was passed by an electorate that made an informed decision about their state campaign finance system—a decision that the legislature should respect by appropriating the funds that would...
Before Saturday, none of the Harvard athletes had ever lost an indoor dual or tri-meet in their careers. Cornell’s margin of victory made the defeat particularly stinging...
...organ is required, leading to a mortality rate for living donors in the neighborhood of 1 in 500 to 1 in 1,000. But when the recipient is another adult, as much as 60% of the donor's liver has to be removed. "There really is very little margin for error," says Dr. Fung. By way of analogy, he suggests, think of a tree. "An adult-to-child living-donor transplant is like cutting off a limb. With an adult-to-adult transplant, you're splitting the trunk in half and trying to keep both halves alive...
Still, the test of Lutz's magic will not come until these cars hit the road in several years. Meantime, the company faces daunting challenges. One is a testy relationship with the autoworkers' union. Another is that despite a hefty profit margin on trucks, GM's overall global operating margins last year were a paltry 1%, to Toyota's 7%, according to Morgan Stanley's Girsky. Today's weak yen worsens that situation by boosting Japan's dollar profits even further. GM's vast overseas operations, with the exception of its joint venture in China, remain a disparate amalgam...