Word: margined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four council-elected executives--Council President Carey W. Gabay '94, Vice President Melissa Garza '94, Secretary Cynthia D. Johnson '96, and Treasurer Rene Reyes '95--voted against the controversial motion, which passed by a margin of 32-30, with three abstentions...
...been weakened by a desire to please everyone and offend no one. But as he scrounged for votes, he crossed a new psychological threshold. When Congressman Bob Torricelli of New Jersey came out against the pact, Clinton fired a rocket his way, penning an acidic message in the margin of a speech Torricelli gave last year in support of free trade: "This was written by a man who cared." When Torricelli telephoned later to discuss the note, Clinton refused to take the call...
...annual competition takes place on the morning of the Harvard Yale football game, said Chess Club President Jeremy L. Martin '96. Harvard won last year also, by a smaller margin of 4 and a half to 3 and a half...
Rollins' tale gained credibility from two facts: Whitman squeaked by with a margin of about 30,000 votes out of 2.4 million ballots, and turnout in black areas where Florio had overwhelming support fell off sharply. Though Florio garnered about 80% of the Newark vote, for example, his total was about 10,000 votes fewer than in 1989. Before Rollins piped up, Democrats had ascribed the lack of enthusiasm for Florio to the Governor's lackluster campaigning in black areas. "They took blacks for granted and paid a price in the turnout," said an aide to Newark Democratic Congressman Donald...
...what looked to be the clincher for Harvard came only three seconds shy of the second-period buzzer. Gustafson took a loose puck from Big Red defenseman Steve Wilson and top-shelved it past Skazyk to make it a three-goal margin...