Word: abandoning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush is impatient with distracting details, just as he is with the cedar undergrowth on his ranch, which he clears with a vengeance because it distracts his view of the big picture. Gore personally managed his legal strategy and wrote his own statements on his laptop. Bush delegates with abandon; during our hours at the ranch, while his lead was slipping in the hand counts, he neither turned on the news nor checked in with his aides. When called with word of the Supreme Court stay, he chatted for only a few minutes and didn't even ask which Justices...
Suddenly, Wilson's narrative jumps away from this unhappy family and back to 1941 Berlin, where an industrialist named Klaus Felsen is being persuaded, none too gently, to abandon his railroad-coupling factory and take on an important assignment for the Nazis. The Third Reich needs vast amounts of wolfram, i.e., tungsten, to use as an alloy in solid-core ammunition, essential for tank warfare, and the present supply from China will cease once Hitler breaks his nonaggression pact with Stalin. Portugal has wolfram, and Felsen speaks Portuguese, a memento from his past affair with a Brazilian woman. Ergo, Felsen...
...what's keeping this process in place today? Some of its defenders consider the electoral college a safeguard against citified control over the election process. If we abandon the current system, the argument goes, and popular vote gains preeminence, the inhabitants of the nation's four or five most populated states might decide presidential elections on their own. And while residents of said states might not have a problem with such an outcome, folks out in North Dakota and Montana might see things a bit differently. Citizens of sparsely populated areas (and the congresspersons who represent them) have grown fond...
...long shot for the Democrats, but he is a staunch supporter of state autonomy - a cause generally championed by conservatives - which could bode well for upholding the Florida Supreme Court's decision. If Gore lawyer David Boies can hammer home a states' rights argument, the Chief Justice could conceivably abandon his previous vote. Another consideration for Rehnquist: This decision will likely define his term as Chief Justice. The political considerations are staggering; no Court has ever played such an active role in determining the presidency before, so Rehnquist in particular may exercise extra caution before voting to end Gore...
...likely are the three swing Justices to abandon the camps established by Saturday?s divisive vote...