Word: margins
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...State Senate President Robert E. Travaglini, the bill immediately generated controversy—Mass. Governor W. Mitt Romney vowed to veto it, arguing that creating embryos for scientific purposes could destroy human lives. Yet the bill sailed through the House and the Senate, easily surpassing the two-thirds margin necessary to override Romney’s veto...
...also supported the political cause of stem cell research. Many lobbied and testified in support of the Travaglini bill before members of the Mass. state legislature—a fact which Travaglini’s office says was key to overturning Romney’s veto by a wide margin...
McCaffery’s final bucket—a dagger from the free throw line to cut the margin to 53-50—gave her 16 points on the night and 13 in the second half. The crowd, which had grown louder with every point the Crimson scored, screamed itself hoarse after the jumper. Her heroics set the stage for Cserny. Fighting for at least one more game in an already stellar career, she took over the final minutes of the second half...
...failure at crafting moderate solutions to America’s problems has contributed to the partisan enmity that currently characterizes all branches of government. And the disconnect between Bush’s words and political actions have bewildered a country that elected him by a slim margin to four more years of power. According to a May 23 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, only 46 percent of Americans approved of the job Bush is doing as president—new lows for the administration. Forty percent of the country approved of his handling of the economy and of the war in Iraq...
...telephone survey of 402 Harvard alumni was conducted in late April by the professional polling agency Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. The margin of error was plus or minus 4.9 percent...