Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game opened with a scoring drought, and after the first six minutes the Tufts five held a tenuous 1-0 lead. With two minutes left in the opening stanza, the Jumbos had stretched the margin to six points. But in a sign of things to come, the Crimson picked up the pace, and in the waning moments of the half, closed to within two points. Kathy Fulton knotted the score at intermission with a forty foot bomb at the buzzer...
That dialectic has made Brown, for the moment at least, the most popular Governor in California history. By a margin of more than 7 to 1, voters polled recently by Mervin Field approved his performance - a level of support well above Ronald Reagan's at his peak. Brown was interviewed by TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook in Los Angeles at El Adobe, an unpretentious restaurant featuring the Jerry Brown special (arroz con polio). His thoughts on a variety of topics...
Pyatt shot a cool 8-10 from the floor in the first half, added a foul shot for the heck of it, and walked off the court at the half with his team in front by a comfortable 47-36 margin...
Harvard came out in the third period skating hard and extended its lead to 5-2. Sophmore defenseman Kevin O'Donoghue, who was a standout in his first varsity effort, let go a blast from the point on a power play situation to up the margin...
...made good political sense, the S.N.P. felt that Wilson was dragging his feet on the controversial issue. S.N.P. Whip Douglas Henderson warned that his party would seek the "right opportunity" to defeat the government in a vote of noconfidence, thereby forcing new elections. Although Labor has a paper-thin margin of one in the 635-member House, it is unlikely that the angry Scots can rally all the non-Labor M.P.s to bring the government down. In any case, it would not help much because they are even cooler to the Scots' cause than are many Laborites...