Word: margined
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...Russian people chose--and chose decisively--to reject the past. Voting in the final round of the presidential election last week, they preferred Boris Yeltsin to his Communist rival Gennadi Zyuganov by a margin of 13 percentage points. He is far from the ideal democrat or reformer, and his lieutenants Victor Chernomyrdin and Alexander Lebed are already squabbling over power, but Yeltsin is arguably the best hope Russia has for moving toward pluralism and an open economy. By re-electing him, the Russians defied predictions that they might willingly resubmit themselves to communist rule...
GENNADI ZYUGANOV Sourly concedes election, losing by wide margin to Yeltsin in runoff vote for Russia's presidency...
...YORK CITY: After a month of presidential campaigning dominated by talk of tobacco and assault weapons, President Clinton has increased his lead over GOP challenger Bob Dole. According to the latest TIME/CNN poll taken July 10-11, Clinton leads Dole by a 53-38 margin, up from a six-point lead in June. The numbers are below Clinton's 22-point lead in May, but still represent Clinton's second largest lead since the poll began last July. Dole appears to have been hurt by comments that tobacco may not be addictive and his failure to support a federal...
...Eager Beaver, taking off her clothes for a living. Worse, he misses Hiaasen's strength: setting mean-funny characters spinning through lowlife milieus. Yes, Burt Reynolds has some dirty, lively moments as a crooked, sex-starved Congressman. But the crazy, nothing-to-lose anarchy of people living below the margin and beyond the fringe is not within Bergman's fastidious reach...
...more than five percent of its value since June 5. The NYSE's composite index fell 1.34 to 355.58; the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 3.10 to 662.06; and the American Stock Exchange's market value index fell 1.54 to 588.99. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a margin of almost 7-to-6 on the New York Stock Exchange, with a moderate volume of 363.82 million shares as of 4 p.m. And in London, gold finished...