Word: casting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...moment, at least, civics is cool. This election has brought home how much we treasure the right to cast a ballot we can decipher and a machine that will count it. People racing to make airport connections stop for a gulp of CNN on the latest court ruling letting the hand count proceed. Look, Gore just got 53 votes in Broward! (Note to TV execs: Please reinstate the running hand-count tally.) Hey, no certification this Saturday! Bush will have to cancel the champagne and the Four Seasons ballroom. Celebrating Saturday night would be premature exuberance...
...fact, in a typical corporate election, most shareholders trust the incumbent management to cast votes for them by proxy. In general, shareholders don't even know they have voted, since even the decision to let someone else decide is made on their behalf by mutual-fund and pension-fund managers. Obviously, huge blocks of votes are easier to count than individual ballots. Only the government would think to insist that every voter cast his or her own individual ballot, thereby making the process of counting them so needlessly onerous and prone to error...
...Yeah, I can see how that hurt Billy Crystal's career," sneers Showtime president of programming Jerry Offsay, referring to Crystal's groundbreaking role in Soap in 1977.) Several fashion designers (of all industries!) even refused to have their products placed in the series. The producers eventually cast almost all unknowns, with the exception of Sparks, a former Talk Soup host on E! who concedes he had "some long talks" with his agent, and Cagney & Lacey's Sharon Gless, who pleaded for the part of Debbie, Michael's earthy, almost smotheringly accepting mother...
...frustrations with the candidates [CAMPAIGN 2000, Nov. 6]. Thanks for the overview of the relevant issues and how they would impact voters. Like many other Americans, I was fed up with the negative advertising and meaningless character attacks that are so prevalent. This was the first time that I cast my vote in a presidential election, but the frustration caused by the decision-making process made me feel the experience was less than worthwhile. NHUT MINH LY St. Robert...
...knows rough-and-tumble politics well, fighting for a district made up mostly of elderly and Jewish voters, residents of the Century Village retirement community. A die-hard Dem, she has served 14 years on the Republican-dominated county commission. She has withstood criticism before, like the time she cast a vote to break a tie, allowing a zoning change that favored her dentist son. She first chose to run for public office as a young mother after reading that an incumbent city commissioner had no opponent. Kids in tow, she went down and filed to run against...