Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...approached the November 1995 showdown over shutting down the government, Newt Gingrich was growing more confident and cockier because he'd already forced Clinton to accept a balanced budget over 10 years, and he was emboldened to escalate his demands to seven years. The government was kept running only through a series of continuing resolutions, and Gingrich and Clinton began to engage in an elaborate game of chicken. There was a real possibility of a serious government shutdown, and the blame could have gone either...
...told a friend, as she was well on her way to racking up visits to all 62 counties, that upstate New York was a lot like Arkansas. And indeed, she seemed at home there, mastering the arcana of dairy-price supports and economic revitalization. While Lazio seemed reluctant to accept that good times had not suffused the state, Clinton was commiserating with those left behind by the current boom. She could still leech the life out of a large audience with her platitudinous speeches; but at diners, schools and community centers she was able to connect one on one. Among...
After last Tuesday's wake-up call, we cannot accept politicians' assurances that the current electoral system has managed for over a century, that 2000 was a fluke and that maybe we'll be lucky for another 100 years. Partisan rancor, the divided outcome and the disputed Florida are more than enough proof that the viability and legitimacy of the 21st century presidency require either constitutional or legislative reform...
...Anyone who doesn't concede an election the moment Dan Rather declares a winner risks being labeled a sore loser. Gore was so eager to surrender in a timely way that he jumped the gun, only to renege later when Florida drifted back into contention. Bush nearly refused to accept the retraction, protesting that little brother Jeb had assured him the Sunshine State was his. To Gore, that wasn't a controlling legal authority. This time he was definitely right...
...spinning or suing. Legitimacy and social peace are maintained not just by law but also by convention. The understanding we share is that all balloting is flawed. When 100 million people go to the polls, there will inevitably be errors, omissions, confusions. But we all agree--in advance--to accept the verdict of the numbers (barring fraud, of course) because we assume that, first, in the end the irregularities will cancel themselves out, and that, second, once the challenges begin, the challenges will never...