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From a telephone poll of 1,055 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Sept. 27 by Harris Interactive. Margin of error is [+ or -] 3%. "Not sures" omitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Clear And Present Danger | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...Collegiate Game Scoring (CGS) should make the tournament even more exciting. Under CGS, or One-Ad, games are won when four points are reached by a margin of two. At 3-3, a team can win at 5-3 or 5-4. The receiver of the ninth point can choose the side...

Author: By David Weinfeld, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Tennis To Host ECACs | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

...didn't say that, like Barry Goldwater, he knows he's right. The recount may yet go forward in a race in which the margin of error has vastly exceeded the razor-thin margin of victory. Lieberman faults the media as much as George W. Bush's spin machine for the hole his side finds itself in. And he has a point. At first I thought the media's desire to come to a conclusion whether or not they came to the truth was partly the result of dirty laundry, unrefundable airline tickets and weekends spent doubled up in scarce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Lieberman, True Believer | 9/25/2001 | See Source »

...Crimson surveyed 406 undergraduates over three days in a randomized telephone survey. The margin of error for the survey is plus or minus four percent, with a wider margin when responses are sorted by political affiliation...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung and Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Students Back Response | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...strategies may spread swiftly as companies jettison the pensions that generations of Americans once worked for. As recently as 1992, traditional pension funds held 21% more assets than 401(k) accounts, IRAS and other defined contribution plans. Today these newer plans hold 15% more than pension funds, and the margin is expected to widen. With a growing number of retirees thus left to the tender mercies of financial markets, many are likely to turn to immediate fixed annuities as a haven they can count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash For Certain | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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