Both times it was defeated, though the margin of opposition narrowed from 3 to 1 to less than 2 to 1 last year.

But the two horse flew on after the brush as the margin between them narrowed.

With this proposal, the margin of defeat again narrowed to 55 votes in last June's referendum.

This time the margin narrowed to about 16,000 votes among 1.2 million cast.

For 1993-94, we expect the margin will have narrowed to less than 15 percent.

And much of the cost will be dumped onto auto suppliers, whose profit margins are narrowing.

In the full quarter, the company said yesterday, margins narrowed.

Although most registered voters - 3.9 million, or 42 percent - are Democrats, the margin has narrowed in the last four years.

While the state has traditionally had more Democratic voters than Republican, the margin narrowed from 2000 to 2002.

Yesterday, a final tally showed the winning margin for the auto workers had narrowed from 179 votes to 68.