Word: margined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting of the council is a grab bag of potential projects, some which continue along the hard-tread path to relevance, and others which threaten to derail the council's highly promising new term. First, Tufts-envy has struck the council once again. In passing a resolution--by a margin of more than 3-to-1--to spend a ridiculous $15,000 on a concert, the council's eyes seem to be glazed over and star-struck by the possibility of hosting the rock band A Tribe Called Quest. (I've never heard of them.) Doesn't the council remember...
...Crimson (14-8 overall, 6-4 Ivy) began weekend play with a 71-44 blow-out victory over Columbia on the Lions' home court. The 27-point win was the largest margin of victory in Harvard's history. Snowden scored 26 points and pulled down 19 rebounds, both career-bests...
Harvard also avenged its only league loss of the season by defeating Cornell (10-12, 1-9) by a comfortable 86-65 margin...
Engler's beast-to-beauty story began in 1990, when he defeated Democratic incumbent James Blanchard by a margin of less than 1%. Engler was not particularly popular, but he promised to dig a strapped Michigan out of a $1.8 billion deficit without raising taxes. He lost no time starting. Half a year after his election, he shocked observers by eliminating Michigan's general-assistance program for the state's 83,000 childless, able-bodied poor. Then he moved on to civil servants, cutting 20 boards and commissions and 5,000 state jobs...
...comprised the final applicant pool, only 12 percent could be admitted, our lowest admission rate ever. The yield remained 75.3 percent, the highest in over a decade and the highest of the nation's selective colleges by a wide margin...