Word: margined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impressive gains by U.S. chipmakers can be chalked up largely to Yankee know-how in specialized chips. While Asian chipmakers continue to excel in mass-produced, low-margin areas like basic memory chips, U.S. companies are focusing on devices with more functions and higher profits. American semiconductor firms, for example, have always maintained a comfortable lead in microprocessors, the "brains" of computers, with about 90% of that market. The gap could widen even further, as U.S. companies roll out new products. Last week Digital Equipment introduced the new Alpha chip, which the Guinness Book of World Records anointed...
...glued to your TV the evening of Nov. 3 was a fraud perpetrated by a vast conspiracy. Virtually everyone you saw on-screen -- reporters, analysts, candidates and their handlers -- knew what everyone else was waiting to hear, yet pretended ignorance. Not just that Clinton would win, but by what margin in which states. And the Senate and governorship results too. All available at the punch of a computer button hours before they were reported to viewers...
...Connor erased the Harvard margin with a blast that passed just under the crossbar to beat freshman goalie Tripp Tracy...
Clinton's plurality in the popular vote, 43% -- vs. 38% for George Bush and 19% for Ross Perot -- was solid rather than spectacular. But his victory nonetheless was sweeping. Geographically, the Arkansas Governor showed enough strength in every part of the country to enjoy a more than comfortable margin in the Electoral College; he won 31 states and 357 electoral votes, vs. only 18 states and 168 electoral votes for Bush. More striking still, Clinton rolled up pluralities or majorities in most major demographic groups: men and women; blacks and Hispanics; every age group, from 18 to 29 to over...
...WEEKLY READER POLL: Right every time since 1956 -- until now. In September its school-aged readers picked Bush by a large margin...