Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come. Urged on by many businessmen, Reagan last May vetoed an omnibus trade bill because it contained the notification provision. Overridden in the House, the veto was sustained by a precarious five-vote margin in the Senate. The Democrats, emboldened by polls indicating that 82% of voters favored advance notification, continued to push for the measure. The bill's sponsors cited a 1985 study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that more than half of the 2.2 million workers involved in large-scale layoffs each year received one day's notice or less before being thrown out of work...
...document that was withheld until late inthe trial is a record of the 1981 full facultyvote on Jackson't tenure bid. The first voteshowed support for Jackson by a margin of 47-7. Asecond vote, taken two days later, showed thetally had changed...
HUCTW denies the charges, saying it engaged in legal get-out-the-vote efforts. The union won the May 17th election by a 44-vote margin, although if it had received four fewer votes the election would have been litigated under a previous agreement with the University. The election capped a three-year organizing drive by HUCTW and a two-month anti-union campaign waged by the University...
Florida, or your money back. Allies of Senator Bob Graham's are guaranteeing delivery of Florida if their guy is on the Democratic ticket. They have even paid for a poll that shows Dukakis-Graham taking the critical state by a comfortable 10-point margin...
...case comes more than one year after a highly-publicized and unsuccessful proxy fight mounted against Gillette by the Coniston Group, a New York-based firm. In last year's proxy contest, Gillette won by a 52 to 48 percent margin over Coniston, which had mounted a campaign to unseat four Gillettee board members in order to sell off the razor company to the highest bidder...