Word: margined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apply some modest impulse to it at its perihelion, or closest point to the sun, using conventional explosives," explains Gregory Canavan, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during each orbit, ensuring that the asteroid misses Earth by a wide margin...
...offer even a slim chance of peace to a country wracked by war was approval by Bosnian Serbs. That happened Wednesday at the ski resort of Pale, 10 miles east of the besieged capital of Sarajevo, where a parliament representing Bosnia's Serbs approved the plan by a comfortable margin. Under the plan, drafted in Geneva earlier this month, the country would be divided into 10 provinces largely drawn up on ethnic lines. Bosnia would continue to exist as a whole, with representatives from the three ethnic groups forming a weak and awkward federal government...
Tuesday's game against the Friars--considered by many to be the best team in women's hockey--gave a large confidence boost to the Crimson (4-7) which lost by a slim 2-1 margin after leading 1-0 going into the third period...
Still, the game was definitely winnable for the Crimson. Early in the third period, with the score 3-1 and Harvard on a power play, Crimson Co-Captains Kim Landry and Joey Alissi had a 2-on-1 break with a chance to cut the margin to one. But Landry's shot sailed harmlessly wide of goalie Sarah Millet, and Harvard would not threaten again until Landry's power play tip-in with 28 seconds remaining ended the scoring...
...guess it depends on how you read the results of the election. If it had been a two-person race, the popular margin would have been greater, but the electoral margin might have been slightly tighter. It's hard to calculate because some states were so close. I think what I have a mandate to do from the people who voted for Clinton and Perot, and some of the people even who voted for Bush, is to try to make the government work again, to strengthen the economy to solve problems, to represent the people at large rather than just...