Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supporters with his unexpectedly strong showing. White's organization had hoped to pick up 60 per cent of the vote and possibly even carry every ward in the city. These expectations were reinforced by a pre-election poll conducted by The Boston Globe, which predicted that White's margin of victory would...
...result, Boston voters were faced in the preliminary with a choice between two men opposed to forced busing, but unable to entirely capture the allegiance of the anti-busing forces. The results of the preliminary bore this out: Timilty won in South Boston by a margin of less than 3 to 2. Louise Day Hicks, a strong anti-busing candidate, carried that neighborhood by 2 to 1 over White in the 1971 preliminary...
...polls in the final election, then Timilty's chances do not look good. For one thing, a better turnout would ensure White of increased support in his traditional strongholds in black and elderly neighborhoods, where turnout was exceptionally low in the preliminary. Moreover, White's 11 per cent margin is considered by some analysts an insurmountable edge...
...Radcliffe team took its trophy on Sunday at Boston University. An eight point margin over MIT and BU gave them the President's Trophy, for the first time since...
...Saturday the Harvard sailors captured the Arthur Knapp trophy by sweeping the Big Three regatta, held on the Charles. The Harvard team easily defeated Yale and Princeton, cruising out ahead by a 30-point margin. Skippering the Crimson victory were Tom Reps, Jim Hamitt and Tony Legett...