Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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deputy, Brandt squeaked through with a razor-thin two-vote margin...
Republican William T. Cahill was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1969 by the largest margin-500,000 votes -in the state's history and within two years was counted among the most successful Governors in the country. His impressive string of accomplishments included stiff environmental protection laws, a no-fault insurance plan, a remarkably popular lottery and a multimillion-dollar mass-transit system. Moreover, he had delighted New Jersey voters by wooing the New York Giants into moving across the Hudson with a new football stadium that will open in 1975. By almost any measure, he seemed...
...pull away. First it was by one length, then five, then ten. Coming into the stretch, Jockey Ron Turcotte did not bother to go to the whip as Secretariat poured it on. When he crossed the finish line, he had won by an incredible 31 lengths, the largest winning margin in the history of the Belmont. As he was decked with a blanket of carnations, Secretariat seemed to nod in acknowledgment; after his mile-and-a-half run, he was not even lathered. More remarkable, his time of 2 min. 24 sec. flat clipped a full...
...sales, since it must sell records at discount prices to compete in the tough Boston market. Textbooks are notoriously unprofitable (despite the fact that the Coop has a monopoly on Harvard reading lists) since they are so bulky and may only be sold at a low 20 per cent margin. Davis asserted that the Coop would have to discontinue many of its student-oriented lines were it not for the profit it makes from lucrative ventures such as the Bow St. development...
John Troyer, owner of a grain elevator in southern Illinois, is slowly going broke. Every day, interest on the $550,000 loan he took out last November to purchase 300,000 bu. of corn is mounting, eating away at his 4½?-per-bu. margin of profit. The grain has already been sold, but Troyer will not be paid until it is delivered-and there is no way to get it delivered. Railroads have promised him 87 covered hopper cars to ship the corn, but the cars have not shown...