Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The Senate approved, 63-36, and sent to the White House a sweeping trade bill yesterday, but supporters fell short of the two-thirds victory margin needed to override a threatened presidential veto...
Harvard (4-0) jumped out to a one-length lead in the first 500 meters, but Navy hung close until the final 500 meters of the race, where the Crimson sprinted to the final eight-second margin of victory...
Harvard defeated Yale earlier in the year in the process of winning the San Diego Crew Classic, and based on the margin of victory against common opponents, the Crimson is running about five seconds ahead of Princeton...
...last summer to administrators of the Norwood-Norfolk central school district in New York. A shocking 61% of children hoping to enter kindergarten there failed a standard test for readiness. After they were consigned to a special two-year kindergarten, a study showed that the test had a 50% margin of error...
...dramatic as the 1971 contest, which set up Byrd's accession to majority leader six years later. The weekend before the vote, Kennedy relaxed over dinner, telling friends he had the job wrapped up. Meanwhile, Byrd was feverishly collecting chits, and believed he had a one-vote margin as long as he could count on the proxy of Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, who was near death in a Washington hospital. On the day of the vote, aides gave Byrd the signal that Russell was still alive and his proxy good. Byrd won with three votes to spare. Russell died...