Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Voting largely along party lines, the House passed the bill 258 t0151- a margin insufficient to override a veto-after an impassioned plea by West Virginia Democrat Harley Staggers. "Do you want to go home and tell your farmers, your small businessmen and little plastic companies that you were down here trying to help them?" he asked. By passing the measure, the Democrats figured to satisfy angry demands from constituents that they do something to ease the energy pinch-and to pin political liability for killing the bill squarely on the President. Representative John Anderson of Illinois, a leader...
Teaching fellows have found their salaries (subsistence wage of $3240 a year) taxed by the University through tuition payments as a way of generating additional University income. Now the University is leaning even more heavily upon graduate students; time constraints and financial chicanery have squeezed that small margin of satisfaction and sense of productive accomplishment that graduate students have been able to enjoy to the edge...
Harvard exploded for six goals in the third period, sending MacKenzie to the bench with Yale trailing, 6-1, reversing the same margin the Elis held over Harvard only a week before. Steve Dagdigian scored with the power play at 6:19 on a Roth rebound, and Thomas nabbed his second at 7:28 as his shot broke off MacKenzie's stick and tucked into the corner...
...though Simon himself did not draw it, is that the U.S. is suffering around three-fourths of the world petroleum shortfall. Supplies available to be imported by other oil-consuming countries have dropped by a scarcely noticeable 400,000 bbl. per day-though, to be sure, that leaves no margin to take care of any increase in demand. So far this month, oil shipments to the U.S. have continued to fall steadily...
...Crimson might be witness to some incredible distance running by Villanova's John Hartnett. The only man in the competition to run a sub-four-minute mile, the Wildcat star could be Villanova's margin for victory...