Word: margins
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...driving force behind the risky venture of reaching out to the West. He has also been an influential - and at times almost solitary - advocate for reform and human rights in Libya. Sitting on a sofa in his private gym, he described frank discussions with his father - "there is a margin for exchanging views" - but reveals the gap is wide...
...garnered the requisite two-thirds majority. But in what Haddock described as a “parliamentary twist,” a further review of last week’s meeting found that the bill only required a simple majority. The bill had passed by a 26-19 margin. —Staff writer Rachel L. Pollack can be reached at rpollack@fas.harvard.edu...
...President John S. Haddock ’07, who ruled that the proposal had failed at the council’s Monday night meeting, now acknowledges that a “parliamentary twist” might change the result of the vote.UC members voted by a 26-19 margin Monday night to amend the council’s nondiscrimination provision. That rule currently bars funding for organizations such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF), which requires its officers to “subscribe without reserve” to principles of faith, as well as several single...
...Bruton said. “You build off the guy that’s throwing in front of you. It gives the hitters a different look each time so it’s pretty effective for us.” The Terriers added to their margin with a single run in the seventh off Mike Dukovich, but Harvard responded in the eighth with a run-scoring single off the bat of designated hitter Matt Brunnig to trim the NU lead back to three. Wilson was gunned down at home to end the threat, sliding into the wallow around the plate...
...high court ruled that Carlin’s puerile theatrics were not subject to First Amendment protection, but the narrow 5-4 margin in the FCC’s favor undermined any attempt to establish a definitive standard for indecency. Justice John Paul Stevens—writing for the majority—only confused the matter with his tortured use of metaphor...