Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the Lions proved that Harvard is still the team to beat in the Ivy League. The Crimson won a game it was expected to win by a margin that sent signals to all Ivy contenders. Restic and Co. won't be offering their Ivy League trophy for sale...
...opening minutes of the first race, Conner finished with a commanding 18-min. lead. In Friday's second meeting Conner again blazed ahead, winning by a comfortable 21 min. Back on land after the first contest, the Kiwis complained that Conner had not beaten them by a large enough margin. They argued that Conner slowed down to make Stars & Stripes seem more equal to their big boat, thereby defusing Fay's claim of a mismatch. Asked by a reporter if he were "dogging it," Conner snapped, "I'm sailing a cat. Someone else is sailing...
Before the votes from Cambridge--where LoPresti was expected to win by large margin--had been tallied, a campaign worker announced that Travaglini had conceded, and the song "Celebration" burst out of the speakers...
Although Gerstell and other analysts say they expect LoPresti to retain his seat because of heavy liberal support, Monks claimed an upset is in the making. He said blue-collar voters in East Boston would go heavily to Travaglini, creating the margin of victory...
Geographically, the Republicans can count on winning the Dallas-Fort Worth area, rural West Texas and the Panhandle. Democrats hope to split Houston with the G.O.P. and roll up a huge margin in South Texas. If so, the campaign will be decided in the small towns of central and East Texas, home to the bulk of the state's 2 million swing voters, a quarter of the total. But there is a demographic codicil: the Democratic margin in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley depends heavily on retaining the loyalty of Hispanic voters, who are being assiduously courted by Bush. "Name...