Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bodies that are invisible to astronomers. From these and other clues, Gunn's group concluded that the universe has no more than a tenth of the mass-and probably less -needed to close it. "Pulling all the arguments together," says Gunn, "an open universe wins by a wide margin...
...smell defeat," said pro-monarchist George Geogeoppulos, a retired army officer, after seeing the first returns. Defeat it was. By an unequivocal margin of 69.2%, Greece voted to abolish the monarchy that has ruled the country since 1833. At his home near London, exiled King Constantine, 34, disconsolately watched the televised election results mount against him. Meanwhile, thousands of his jubilant countrymen converged on Athens' Constitution Square to celebrate the birth of their nation as an "uncrowned democracy." Constantine now joins the small but select group of unemployed European monarchs (see box). In a brief statement of concession...
...murder. Of the five I.R.A. terrorist cells that the British believe are operating in England-two in London and three in the Midlands cities of Birmingham, Luton and Coventry -authorities think that one and perhaps two have been broken up by the arrests. Parliament, meanwhile, voted down by a margin of 369 to 217 a proposal to restore hanging as capital punishment for terrorists, although the final vote, as Home Secretary Roy Jenkins acknowledged, was "probably at variance with public opinion and dangerously...
Going into the field events, Army led 46-18, a margin which dwindled to ten points with two events left--the triple jump and the pole vault. Harvard took two firsts but lost both thirds to lose in the final moments to the Cadets...
...Yardlings led by eight at the half, and widened the margin at the outset of the final period in their quest to avenge last year's defeat by Worcester...