Word: bob
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...signs of intent. Callers to conservative talk-radio shows made an issue of the fact that it was an openly gay judge, Broward County canvasser Judge Robert W. Lee, who was accepting ballots that were merely indented, not fully punched through. "They're casting votes, not counting votes," Bob Dole told reporters Friday, part of the Republican SWAT team of celebrity poll watchers. When Lee's team finally finished around midnight Saturday, he dispatched a lawyer to Tallahassee to physically hand the results over to Katherine Harris, since he had heard that her fax lines might be conveniently tied...
...might prevent Florida from meeting its Dec. 12 deadline for choosing electors. If court contests are still unsettled by the end of next week, the legislature may have little choice but to act on its own. "No one is gung-ho about calling a special session," says state representative Bob Allen, a freshman Republican, "but if the situation is still in stalemate, we are willing to take action...
...time the deal was in motion, discord and age had sent several top members of Chrysler's dream team--vice chairman Bob Lutz, chief engineer Francois Castaing and manufacturing whiz Dennis Pawley--into the Detroit sunset. The demands of the merger made things worse. Meetings, transatlantic travel and continued distrust over Schrempp's intentions distracted executives in Chrysler's Auburn Hills, Mich., headquarters. Chairman Bob Eaton, who had pushed for the Daimler merger, became increasingly detached from the company's operations--but not so much that he couldn't fire Chrysler president Tom Stallkamp last year. Schrempp may not have...
...collector. In high school, he was "most likely to succeed," "friendliest" and "most intellectual." After graduating from FSU and then the University of Florida's law school, he worked as a prosecutor and a federal bankruptcy judge before being appointed to the circuit court in 1989 by Republican governor Bob Martinez. Two events shaped Sauls' life: the 1993 death of his 16-year-old daughter in a car accident, and a local scandal in 1998, when the state supreme court removed him as the circuit's chief judge for his "continuing disruption in the administration of justice." He had been...
...Feinstein has established himself as the authority on men's college basketball by writing about the antics of former Indiana coach Bob Knight in A Season on the Brink to the Atlantic Coast Conference, which annually boasts the nation's most successful hoops programs. In The Last Amateurs, however, Feinstein has turned to the little-known Patriot League, where academics is more important than athletics...