Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...odometer first flipped in New Zealand--a place experts believed was so dependent on technology it would surely implode if its computers believed the year was 1900--it was only a little shocking that absolutely nothing happened anywhere on or above the globe. Airplanes stayed in the air. Y2K bunker dwellers began to pack up canned food for the soup kitchens. People, in general, went to bed early...
...objective," Sasso said, as he began to explain what he thought of recount procedures. "I'm not in the political bunker [anymore...
...time the biggest mini-trial in electoral history slouched to a close Sunday night in Tallahassee (boiling down anew into a 14,000-vote legal tug-of-war between David Boies and Barry Richard), George W. Bush had sent his main man out of the bunker to turn up the heat. Al Gore, over in his bunker, acted like it tickled...
...quite a show, so many lefties ganging up on a guy for having the gall to act like--how best to describe it?--such an old-fashioned Democrat. You might expect the target of such vitriol to be squirreled away in a bunker somewhere. But Nader seemed no more folded in on himself than usual. Visited several blocks from the White House in the dumpy town house that served as his campaign headquarters, he was unrepentant and unsurprised. "Well-intentioned cowards," he called his critics, whom he finds unforgivably tolerant of a poisoned system in which both major candidates dance...
...These sentiments did not issue from some short-wave broadcast in the Ozarks, or from a Minuteman bunker in Montana. They were expressed by hosts, guests and callers on some of New York City's top radio stations. In America's most liberal city - where most Democratic congressmen, solidly to the left of the President, were elected with 80 to 90 percent of the vote - the airwaves roil with right-wing rant from WOR's Bob Grant, WABC's Sean Hannity and Steve Malzberg. And in this weird election week, when pundits were as befuddled as that...