Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale jumped out to a short-lived lead at the start, but by the half-mile mark the Crimson had edged out to a half a length margin. By the first mile Harvard was up a length and moving. "Our strategy was to break Yale and then go for a margin. But we had a tougher time breaking them than we expected," said stroke Al Shealey...
...Last week he vetoed a bill to regulate the strip mining of coal, arguing that the restrictions arrived at to protect the environment would be too costly for consumers and reduce coal production. Though the bill had passed the House May 7 by a 293-to-115 margin, the Democratic leaders put off until June 10 attempts to override it. As of last week they clearly did not have the two-thirds majority needed to break the veto. "We may back into an energy policy," says Barber Conable, a New York Republican member of Ways and Means. "By the Democrats...
Branding the Communist action "a maneuver designed to silence yet another free voice in Portugal," Rego locked himself in his office. His editorial staff voted to support him by an overwhelming 22-to-2 margin and declared that Republica was not the "exclusive property of its workers" but of the Portuguese people...
...depose the Teamsters in almost all the elections. Gallo backs the bill and so do the growers. The Teamsters are opposed to it. The bill's chances in the California legislature are good nonetheless; a state senate committee has approved it by a 5-to-l margin. There will probably not be an immediate end to the labor conflicts even if the bill is passed, but it is at least a move toward peace-and the legally protected free choice of unions for farm workers...
...have hinted at another veto, but the chances of the bill becoming law are nonetheless fairly strong. So many Senators favored the bill that the Senate last week did not bother to take a count, but passed it by voice vote. In the House, the bill passed by a margin of 293 to 115, or three more votes than would be necessary to override another no from the White House...