Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear as he had hoped. After a four-day debate, the Senate confirmed Paul Warnke's selection as director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency by a vote of 70 to 29; but it approved his nomination as chief SALT negotiator by a narrower margin...
Symbol or not, Clean Gene ran a real campaign last fall. He got on the ballot in most states and garnered more than a million dissatisfied voters to his cause. For Carter, who would have lost the election but for a 20,000 vote margin in Ohio and Hawaii, he was all too real...
Manroe's shot, you see, reduced the Knicks' margin of victory from six points to four and swung the spread from those who bet on the hometown boys to those who wagered on the visitors...
...illustrated by a wildcat strike of 3,000 toolmakers that has brought most auto production to a standstill at the plants of British Leyland, makers of Morris, Austin, Triumph, Rover, and Jaguar cars, and idled 33,000 workers. The toolmakers are striking over the erosion of their "differential"-the margin by which the wages of skilled workers exceed those of the less skilled. Since the social contract held all increases to a flat monetary standard and ruled out raises in Phase 1 above a $14,000-a-year ceiling, the effect was to push low wages upward and restrict higher...
...Augustine narrowed the margin to 6-4 with 8:37 gone in the period, and the stage was set for the heroics of BC's Joe Mullen...