Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago Candidate Jimmy Carter promised the nation's mayors that if he became President, they would have "a friend, an ally and a partner in the White House." The pledge delighted the mayors and won him the enthusiastic support of many urban blacks, whose votes provided his margin of victory. This week, after a series of delays and bureaucratic bungles, the President is finally preparing to put his words into action. In a televised address from the White House, he will present his new urban policy, which he describes as "a new partnership to conserve America...
Professors in Natural Science departments opposed the core by almost a three-to-one margin, while professors in the History, Government and Economics Departments overwhelmingly approved of the plan...
...betrayed Marxism's humanistic vision. Alone or in coalitions, social-democratic leaders control the governments of Britain, West Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Norway, The Netherlands, Portugal?to cite only European examples. (Sweden's Social Democrats, after 44 years in power, were defeated in 1976 by a narrow margin.) Social democracy accepts a multiparty political system and believes in gradual, peaceful means of reaching its socialist goals. In practical terms, this has meant that social democrats have concentrated more on alleviating what they regard as hardships created by capitalist economies (unemployment, salary and wage inequities) than on directly restructuring...
...offering 6-to-4 odds against a leftist victory. The franc ticked up in the international money markets, a mini-rally stirred the moribund Paris stock exchange, and President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Premier Raymond Barre privately predicted a center-right win-by a narrow margin. But the left still led the center-right parties by about 50% to 46% in the latest polls, and there were plainly still some Frenchmen who were ready to resort to the traditional Gallic suitcase defense against the possibility of abrupt political change. Headlines bannered the news last week when...
...think it's assinine to talk about what margin we need to set our voting level at to push our constitution through," Stephen Winthrop '80, a South House delegate, said last night. "If we don't have a strong mandate then we will simply not be the sole legitimate representative of the students, as we say in the preamble...