Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seconds later Brown rounded out the night's scoring when Dave Roberts took the draw and led winger Wayne Lucky in close untouched. Lucky responded and both teams skated out the last eleven-plus minutes in unspectacular fashion, with Brown sitting comfortably on its four-goal margin...
...colonial economies, it is most profitable for private industry to invest in production of raw materials and agricultural products. Manufacturing requires heavy initial investment with less of a profit margin. Therefore, most transnational corporations invest only in primary goods production in most African countries, leaving the countries vulnerable to economic instability as prices fluctuate. To break this pattern of uneven development, the government must intervene...
...sleep in the White House shortly after midnight, without knowing whether he had become one of the few Presidents ever to lose a primary election. He awoke at 5:30 a.m., eagerly turned on a radio-and discovered he had defeated California's Ronald Reagan. Although the margin was only 1.2% (a switch of fewer than 660 votes, out of 108,331 cast, would have changed the outcome), Ford declared he was "delighted" by his first election victory of any kind outside Grand Rapids. A reporter asked him, "Was it like beating Michigan State?" The old Big Ten center...
Reagan was doubly disappointed because he had blown the lead. After his first foray to the state last November, his polls showed him with a 45%-38% margin over Ford, though 17% were undecided. Following the President's first campaign visit in early February, Reagan fell slightly behind in the polls. Then, in the final weeks of campaigning, the pollsters' findings wavered back and forth. Still, on election eve, Reagan staffers anticipated victory...
...Bruins hit a scorching 24 of 34 shots in the second half, and rolled past Harvard for 60 points. Their margin mounted point by point toward the final...