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After a number of vote re-counts, the bill passed by the narrowest of margins...
Nellie, you're on your own. The Senator won his seat last fall by the narrowest margin in state history. Bush, who crushed Gore by 30 points in Nebraska, was sending a clear message: a vote against the tax cut would be a vote against a President who was more popular in Nebraska than Nelson. It might even be political suicide...
...over 50 now. I'm not sure it's the most significant film in my canon, but it's a big one, like "Citizen Kane" or "Vertigo" or "Taxi Driver" or "La Dolce Vita." "Kong" was the first film to which I ever gave a close reading, in the narrowest technical sense. Seeing the film as often as I did made it possible for me to examine each contribution in depth - fortunately, it's an unusually rich film in every category. Understanding the pieces of "Kong," what made each component work, helped me later with "Citizen Kane" and "Psycho...
...wasn't another St. Valentine's Day massacre, or even a blowout, for that matter, but the Harvard men's volleyball team hosted Roger Williams University last night and, in contrast to what the final 3-0 tally might indicate, it eked out a victory by the narrowest of margins...
...coveted Whitbread Book of the Year award for his tragicomedy, English Passengers; in London. The epic novel interweaves the voyage of a group of bigoted 19th century Englishmen searching for the Garden of Eden and the genocide of Tasmanian Aboriginals. Kneale won the $33,000 prize by the narrowest margin ever, on the chairman's vote...