Word: margined
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While 24 percent of students reported drug use, only a scattered few acknowledged using cocaine or heroin. However, 5 percent of the 421 surveyed said they had used hallucinogens in their time as undergraduates. Twenty-three percent of those surveyed said they had used marijuana. The margin of error for all questions is less than 5 percent...
Natural-science concentrators reported 18percent has used drugs. In the social sciences, 24percent said they had used drugs. For these therequestions, margin of errors was less than 6percent...
...survey's margin of error varies by question, but does not exceed 6 percent on any single question...
...margin of error might have been affected by the first respondent's insistence on making a speech to all assembled about Robert Livingston's nearly attaining the speakership, an office that is third in the line of succession. "Say what you want to about Larry Flynt," the first respondent declared, "but if Livingston hadn't been exposed and Bill Clinton had been forced out of office, we could have had an adulterer a heartbeat away from the presidency...
...From a telephone poll of 1,031 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN last month by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Margin of error +/- 3%. "Not sures" omitted...