Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Warning to all who drive gas guzzlers while fretting about the melting ice cap and the diminished rain forest: Your bluff is called. Finally. Just as the U.S. is grappling with the problem of how to meet its international promise to reduce global warming, the first hybrid gasoline-electric cars are hitting the U.S. market. Though these green machines, a major advance in automobile engineering, are getting off to a slow start, down the road they may yet compete bumper to bumper with gas-only cars...
...count undervotes, there's time for overvotes too. These were the Republican talking points on Sunday, meant to grab some last bits of high ground before the Court crowned Bush the next day. Perhaps those "substantially probable" five Court votes are only readying to call James Baker's bluff. Maybe they'll even have all 6 million Florida ballots counted, and call Gore...
...previously rocketed when he wasn't there. Now they've got one of his guys, and they're saying 'It could have been you.' But there's some doubt about whether the Israelis would try to kill a leader as senior as Bargouti, and he may call their bluff. After all, if the Israelis started going for Palestinian national leaders rather than just local ones, it would create an entirely different ballgame...
...Contestant grabs bar. Contestant lifts bar. Contestant makes a happy grimace and drops bar. Contestant leaves stage. But it's not without drama, as the women try to psych each other out backstage by making their next lift heavier and heavier. Sort of like muscle poker. Except everybody's bluff is eventually called...
...supposed to call them by their band member names or their real names? What do their groupie girlfriends call them in bed? Are their mothers confused? And most importantly, who writes these fabulous lyrics? (Sample: "Breaking up is hard enough / Say you had nothing but I called your bluff / You got my sweaters, my hat, I can't find my cat / The hardest part of breaking up is getting back your stuff...