Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Geisel had apparently won his gamble for a mandate-namely, a majority vote for ARENA candidates-but not by the margin he sought. As Columnist Carlos Castello Branco wrote in Jornal do Brasil, "This is a victory with the flavor of defeat." As expected, ARENA candidates won in Brazil's rural backlands, but MDB swept five of Brazil's largest cities by substantial margins...
...Franco era toward democratic rule. Juan Carlos and the government could have bypassed the conservative Cortes and taken the political reforms directly to the Spanish people by way of a referendum. Last week the government released a poll showing that Spaniards favored passage of the bill by a margin of more than 20 to 1. From the beginning, however, the Suárez government has moved cautiously, in order to avoid alienating the powerful right-wingers who are still entrenched in the government and armed forces. The King relied heavily on Suárez, who prepared the delicate maneuvering that...
Martin Luther King Jr. would indeed have been pleased if he had seen how the bottom line in 1976 bulged with black votes. In close races in state after state, North and South, they provided Jimmy Carter with his victory margin...
Champion said that although the Botanical Museum lost $3000 this year and the Peabody Museum is operating on a "narrow margin", the Busch-Reisinger and Fogg Museums are the main areas of concern...
...Jersey voters decided by a large margin to allow gambling casinos to be built and operated in Atlantic City. The referendum on gambling was one of the hottest issues in the state, arousing the strong opposition of religious leaders and law-enforcement officials who warned that turning the beach-resort city into a Las Vegas East would attract not only tourists but also organized crime, prostitution and loan sharks. The Committee to Rebuild Atlantic City spent $1 million arguing that casino gambling would resuscitate the dowdy, declining resort and bring much-needed revenue into the city and the state...