Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are not likely to do so much longer. Like other Democrats, liberals and party leaders most want a winner, which Carter persuasively showed himself to be last week. His twelve-point margin in Pennsylvania proved conclusively that he could topple tough opposition in a big Northern industrial state. In Texas, his come-from-behind victory over Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen showed that not even a popular favorite son could slow the Carter bandwagon. The overwhelming successes?he has won eight of the first ten primaries?stunned old-line political leaders...
...surge? One reason is that many businessmen succeeded in maintaining or even increasing prices during the recession. Their total profits fell last year as sales dropped off, but their profit margin on each dollar of sales held up fairly well. Now, with sales rebounding, the margins translate into zooming total profits. In addition, output per man-hour in nonfarm industries is rising nearly as fast as labor costs. That may change as more workers are hired and wages rise, but for the moment it means fatter profits. Most important, consumers are now buying the autos, appliances, clothes and other products...
There MIT suddenly took a power twenty and cut the lights' margin in half. But Radcliffe coxswain Linda Coffman responded by moving the cadence back up, and the eight regained its earlier margin...
Harvard had not won since 1961. Partners Eric Robinson, a sophomore life master, and Art Moore, a second-year student at the LawSchool, had won the New England Regional qualifying tournament in February by a comfortable margin. With the win came an expense-paid trip to the finals in Knoxville and a $500 scholarship for Harvard...
...Navy was not as fortunate as the second varsity boat moved out from the very start and by the 500-meter mark it was anchors away for the Crimson. With a steady four-seat lead under its rudder, stroke Kevin Cunningham and company simply and slowly lengthened out their margin...