Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INCUMBENT Presidents traditionally start election campaigns with comfortable leads, only to see them narrow or vanish in the crunch of events and the campaigning itself. Richard Nixon's margin at this point seems not only comfortable but overwhelming. The first of a new series of TIME Polls, conducted by Daniel Yankelovich Inc., between July 24 and Aug. 7, took soundings from 2,320 representative voters from 16 "battleground" states, including seven deemed critical by both parties. * The sample, interviewed in depth by telephone concerning wide-ranging issues and attitudes, gave Nixon a 2-to-l edge over George McGovern...
...doing everything possible to keep prices from rising. Despite a clear consensus that McGovern is the champion of the "little man," voters gave Nixon a 9% edge in being able to handle the unions more "fairly." Union members participating in the poll gave Nixon a startling 15% margin over McGovern...
...nosed out A. & P. as the biggest supermarketeer. Determined to recapture its dominant position, A. & P. has converted 3,700 of its 4,200 stores to WEO, and by fall all of them will be discounting. The company trimmed its prices so low that its gross profit margin (before taxes and operating expenses) has slid to an estimated 12%, v. about 14% for most discount food chains and 21% for conventional supermarkets...
...salesmen last year wrote more orders for new computers than two of its larger rivals, Honeywell and Univac. It has the industry's second highest profit margin, behind IBM, and on one front Burroughs is even advancing faster than IBM. In a strong market for computer stocks, Burroughs shares last week reached a new high of 208, having climbed 30% so far this year, compared with a 17% increase in IBM's shares...
Slam! Chop! From that day on, Fischer has been a man possessed. Needing to place only sixth or better at the interzonal tournament in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to qualify for the next round of the world championship, he not only won by a wide margin but swept his last seven games in a row. That advanced him to a match against veteran Soviet Grand Master Mark Taimanov in Vancouver last year. Fischer defeated him in six straight games. Then, last July in Denver, Fischer took on Denmark's Bent Larsen, ranked second only to Bobby in the West...