Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other contest, Hawaii also defeated the Lady Terriers by an identical 76-62 margin...
...pair of Fred Schernecker free throws and hoops by guards Smith and Keith Webster cut the margin to six at the buzzer...
More important, the anthology shows have largely delivered on their creative promise: they have brought imagination, excitement and stylistic diversity to weekly series fare. The clinkers may outnumber the winners by a wide margin, but the high points--many from feature directors taking an unaccustomed fling at TV--have been worth waiting for. John Landis, director of the dismal Christmas release Spies Like Us, managed to pack far more laughs into his wacky episode of George Burns Comedy Week, about a small town that tries to win federal disaster aid by faking an earthquake. Joe Dante's best work...
...when familiar cries of "fraud" rang out. As in every election in the South American country since it was granted independence from Britain in 1966, opposition politicians and others charged that the polling and the vote count were rigged to favor the ruling People's National Congress. Indeed, the margin of victory was improbably large, with the P.N.C. taking 76% of the vote and six opposition parties dividing the rest. The win gives the P.N.C. 42 of the 53 seats in the national legislature and allows President Hugh Desmond Hoyte, 56, to remain in office for five more years...
...military's top post. Ver had been suspended from that post upon his indictment 14 months earlier, and Marcos had promised to reinstate him upon acquittal. Three hours after Ver left it at the palace, his letter was returned with a message from Marcos penned in the margin. The request to resume duty, it read, "is hereby approved for such a period as may be decided upon...