Word: beating
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...first time the electoral college directly denied the presidency to the winner of the popular vote was in 1888. Grover Cleveland, running for re-election, beat Benjamin Harrison by 91,000 in the popular vote but lost, 233 to 168, in the electoral college. It was a confusing election. Fraud tainted both results. Yet nearly 80 percent of eligible voters had gone to the polls, and though the popular-vote winner lost the presidency, no one in 1888 seems to have questioned the legitimacy of the result...
...Actually, what we do is we sit in a room and try to beat out an outline for the movie. Say, you know, we come up with a story line. Actually, on this movie, me and Hurleyhee were writing and Covert was helping and Jack, our producer. And we didn't have a flow going, and we called this guy Steve Brill up, and he actually rejuvinated us and got us a good story line. And we all jamed together on that. It's just trying to make each other laugh. Trying to have the script make some sense...
Should Harvard win, it would face the winner of the subsequent Michigan-William & Mary matchup. It will be hard for the Demon Deacons not to be looking ahead towards a possible quarterfinal rematch with Michigan, who beat them 3-2 in double overtime in last year's tournament...
...Hampshire, where Bush was trounced by Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) in the primary season, Bush beat Gore, who had gotten significant help from Mass. campaigners, by a mere one percent. Nader took four percent of the statewide vote...
That goal would not stand long, however, as the Gophers pulled ahead for good at 6:49 when Minnesota center Ronda Curtin beat Kuusisto...