Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Bush's veto of a bill to provide abortion assistance to impoverished victims of rape and incest was sustained in the House yesterday as a 231-191 vote to override him fell 51 votes short of the necessary two-thirds margin...
...House, which approved the original draft of the bill last summer, voted by a slim margin to accept an amended Senate version of the bill, 79-73, after more than two hours of often-heated debate on the House floor...
...nothing else, NBC executives seem guilty of violating a cardinal TV principle, the one about fixing things that aren't broken. Today is No. 1 in the morning-news ratings, and has been for nearly four years. Yet its margin over ABC's Good Morning America has been shrinking. For the past two weeks, Today has led by only 0.4 of a rating point, and it has fallen to second place in the key demographic group of women ages 25 to 54. "There were a lot of people who thought the show was a little stale," says an NBC executive...
...Crimson is expected to outdo Yale by an even wider margin with its complete team rowing. A win would give the lights their third-straight collegiate championship in the Head of the Charles Regatta...
...Crimson's lone tally came in the middle of the second half, closing the UMass margin to 2-1. Junior halfback Sue Carls passed to Weinstock on the left wing. Weinstock dumped the ball off to Johnston at the top of the penalty box. Johnston cut around the defender and blasted the ball into the upper right corner of the net for her sixth goal of the season, breaking a personal seven-game scoring drought...