Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just a few days before that, Carter gathered a bunch of Congressmen and women around him and talked about how the U.S. margin of power had begun to decline in Kennedy's time, about his idea that in adjusting to the new realities we had to rely more on trade, our religious heritage and human rights. Those who listened were impressed with the sincerity of the President and his collection of facts about people and places. But what did not add up was how this country was going to move beyond the disappointments in Iran and the Israeli-Egyptian...
...when the plan was finally put to a vote in Scotland and Wales last week, it was turned down. Welsh voters, fearing that the practical effect of limited self-rule would be the creation of a costly new bureaucracy, rejected the idea by a 4-to-1 margin. Still, the big surprise came in Scotland, where as recently as a month ago opinion polls showed voters favoring devolution by almost 2 to 1. In the end, barely 33% of the eligible voters had said yes to the plan, while 31% had said no. Since 40% of all those registered...
Fine, Donald Fleming, and Hooft all notched baskets in the last minute, but Cornell kept adding points at the free throw line to prevent Harvard from coming any closer than the eight-point margin that separated the teams at the buzzer...
Over the weekend. Schramm and Greacen contributed 63 points to the Crimson cause. Greacen finished third in both the one-and the three-meter contests while Schramm took second in the lowboard and fifth in the highboard events. Princeton had no divers entered. Harvard's margin of victory...
...freestylers that decided the margin of Harvard's lead going into the final day--and yesterday Princeton, the team that takes so much pride in its freestyle depth, came up one man short...