Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midfield stripe, the Crimson running off exactly twice as many plays (24) as the thoroughly beaten visitors. For the game, the Terriers ran off almost the same number as Harvard (remember a 22-1 edge in the first quarter) but were outgained in total yardage by a 470-253 margin...
...found 34.4% thought he had won, 31.8% considered Carter the winner and 33.8% either figured it a tie or had no opinion. (Statistically, this sample carries a possible error of 2.9%.) A Louis Harris/ABC News poll taken the day after the debate also showed that viewers, by a narrow margin, thought Ford had won. Also, according to Harris, Carter had led Ford 52%-39% before the debate, but slipped to a 50%-41% margin afterward...
...priests and bishops. The proposition had been rejected in 1970 and 1973, but the Minneapolis convention finally voted in favor of the full ordination of women,* breaking with a practice dating to the earliest days of the church. In the House of Bishops, 60% voted yes, a slim margin to carry conviction and impel churchwide support for such an emotional issue. In the House of Deputies (made up of priests and laity who vote separately on important decisions), it was an eyelash victory because of the house's peculiar voting system. If the priestly delegations from just three...
...harriers were less successful against an undefeated Penn squad, as the Quakers logged their fifth win by a margin of ten points...
...turned that social club into a lobby for reform. In 1970, when an archsegregationist became the top candidate for chief justice, Heflin decided to take him on. "There was a feeling someone else ought to run," he recalls mildly. He won by a 2-to-l margin. And while the Heflin court has hardly become the most liberal in the country, one local civil rights lawyer says that as of now, "I'd rather take my chances with the supreme court of Alabama than with the Supreme Court...