Word: margined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening victory against Columbia was just as sweet but definitely less of a contest. Harvard's 60-point margin of victory seems impressive itself but the score was deceptive. The Crimson didn't race full strength...
...From the undergraduates' perspective, academic tutors may increase academic engagement for some, but only on the margin," says Assistant Professor of Government Andrew M. Moravcsik. "What really matters is what happens in the classroom--a focal point for reform, in my view, far more important than the housing system...
...rituals, these polls can do the most to torture front runners: because no real convention delegates are at stake, they are mainly useful for candidates to test the local party organizations. The straw polls only make news when the front runner stumbles--which can include winning by a smaller margin than expected...
Rabin defeated Peres for the party leadership and went on to become Israel's youngest Prime Minister and the first sabra to hold that post. He won by a narrow margin, however, which meant he was compelled to include Peres in his Cabinet as Defense Minister (a concession he agreed to, he later confessed, with "a heavy heart"). His first term included several significant events, among them his authorization of the dramatic 1976 raid on Entebbe, Uganda--a decision that Peres, in an effort to undermine his rival, later suggested was "forced" upon a reluctant Rabin by the Cabinet...
After a boisterous campaign that stirred passions in Canadians from all provinces, Quebec chose to remain part of Canada, voting 50.6% against secession and 49.4% for it in a special plebiscite. The razor-thin margin consisted of just 52,448 votes out of almost 5 million cast; the 93.4% turnout was a record. One day later, Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, announced that he would resign before year's end. But charismatic Quebec politician Lucien Bouchard insisted that the cause of secession is not dead: "The next time will be the right...