Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential aides insisted, quick and candid disclosure of all the facts would have rendered it a brief summertime sensation. If it was more serious and involved officials close to Nixon, as now seems plain, those implicated should have been exposed and fired. At worst, Nixon's re-election margin might have been less grand. But high Republican and White House officials chose to evade and even to lie. Last week that dam of deceit seemed on the verge of collapse, spilling Watergate's contamination more widely than ever...
...campaign promise. He had pledged to make reforms in taxation and education and provide greater worker representation on the boards of industrial firms. But Brandt's efforts have been frustrated by the less-liberal Free Democrats, whose 41 seats in the Bundestag provide him with a 46-vote margin over the opposition...
...weeks will decide the boatings for this season. Parker has already started seat racing in earnest. In a seat race two boats race any given distance and then pull to allow two oarsmen to switch across. Then the crews race over the same distance and any difference in margin indicates who made the boat go faster...
Last year the University voted for a resolution to force General Motors to disclose details of its South African operations, but the resolution failed by a wide margin...
That may be something of an understatement. Allen won the preferential poll by such a wide margin (688 to 381 for Cronkite) that the Class Committee felt compelled to brush aside its reservations and abide by the ballot. Generally, one Committee member confided, "most of the idiots got the votes." So much for the democratic process...