Word: margined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson even held a wide margin in the dubious category of fouls committed, amassing 26 infractions to three for the Lions over the entire game...
Indeed, despite the higher returns, Harvard isstill not the industry leader it was in yearspast. Yale University, for example, returned 17.3percent in fiscal 1993, marking the fifth straightyear--and the eighth out of the last ten--that ithas out performed Harvard by a significant margin...
...defeat. Robertson and Reed had assumed early on that Bush would narrowly edge out Clinton. Thus, although they had little affection for Bush, they helped check the movement of social conservatives toward Pat Buchanan. Their expectation was that Christian Coalition would get credit, and legitimacy, for securing the critical margin of support. In exchange, Bush's handlers accepted many of Reed's choices for delegates to the convention and allowed the religious right to pack the platform committee. The upshot: Bush seemed a prisoner of his party's extreme right, and the conservatives took a mostly bum rap for Bush...
...immediate problem was that even this tenuous deal left Clinton well short of the 51 votes he needs to gain Senate approval. With the slim margin afforded by a 56-to-44 vote in the Senate, Democrats can afford to lose only six colleagues if they hope to save the measure. Already, Richard Shelby of Alabama, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona have made it clear that they cannot support the President. Of the six other Democratic votes up for grabs, Clinton must win three. Louisiana's Bennett Johnston voted against the package in June...
Asimple question was asked of a random sample of American in a Time/CNN poll: Do you favor a federal law that would prohibit employers from hiring permanent replacements for striking workers? By a margin of over 2 to 1, the over-whelming response...