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...chances, but in the end, what you’re judged on is how many goals you score.” Harvard ended the game with a 25-7 lead in shots on goal over Yale, an advantage not seen in the final score. However, the margin did help to close the offensive gap between the Crimson and its opponents, as Harvard entered the contest with a 69-79 shot deficit for its season. The lack of scoring may have been slightly affected by external factors. Forceful winds plagued the Crimson during the first half of play, frequently sending...
Despite the large margin of victory, the first set was not the drubbing it appeared...
...bill passed the House 263 to 171 - with 91 Republicans and 172 Dems voting yes - a larger margin than expected, considering the bill's spectacular failure, 228 to 205, on Monday that caused the largest one-day drop, 778 points, in the Dow Jones industrial average. Very soon after passage, President Bush signed the bill into law, finally giving Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson the authority that he requested more than two weeks ago to buy up Wall Street's distressed mortgage-backed securities. But getting it done was not pretty or easy, and the clearest sign of that...
...Today Arapahoe's famous sons are Democratic governor Bill Ritter and Andrew Romanoff, the Democratic speaker of the house. The Republican Party is 4,000 voters away from losing its registration advantage in the county. And in 2004, Bush won by less than 3 points here, roughly half his margin across the state. Democrats now hold 8 of 11 state house seats in Arapahoe, and they are one seat away from taking over the county commission. What explains the shift? At the same time that nearby Jefferson and Douglas counties were wooing away Arapahoe's upwardly mobile families...
...poll of 1,133 likely voters was conducted Sept. 26-29 and has a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points...