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Last year, in front of 1000 spectators at Blodgett Pool, the same thing happened. In the last relay, with the meet on the line, Princeton finished on top by the narrowest of margins, a mere four-hundredths of a second...
...September mission will be the ultimate test of both Voyager and its pilots. On their 4 1/2-day flight, Rutan and Yeager were confined to a cabin that is only 2 ft. wide at its narrowest and 7 1/2 ft. long, just enough room for the passenger to lie alongside the pilot, who can sit only halfway upright. While spelling each other at the controls during their 580-mile laps over the California coast between San Luis Obispo and San Francisco, the pilots could not relax; Voyager is so light that it is easily buffeted by the wind and needs constant...
...exactly a smashing political victory for Ronald Reagan, but at least the President avoided what could have been a foreign policy disaster. As White House officials clustered around TV sets to watch deliberations, which were being televised for the first time last week, the Senate approved by the narrowest possible margin an Administration plan to sell $265 million worth of missiles to Saudi Arabia. Opponents of the proposal had one less than the 67 Senators needed to override a presidential veto...
Although it may sound overly jingoistic, the apathy of the American populace is due to its satisfaction with its political system. Because our political spectrum is one of the narrowest in the world, debates tend to focus on very similar options--for example, whether to increase or decrease nuclear weapon funding, rather than whether or not to abolish nuclear weapons entirely. Thus, supporters of one side of an argument don't stand to lose very much in the event of defeat...
...begin new talks aimed at working out some sort of voluntary restraints. Gephardt explained that he has come to believe any necessary restraints on imports of particular products ought to be established by diplomatic negotiation rather than imposed by Congress. The amendment lost by the narrowest possible vote: 18-17. In the Senate, a band of Republican free-traders led by Washington's Dan Evans pledged a filibuster against the measure...