Word: chosen
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...voters and centrist enough that he didn't get thrown out as an anachronism. He was running for a 10th re-election when, on Sept. 12 at age 70, he finally came up on the short end of a vote. James Perkins Jr., 47, a former computer consultant, was chosen as the first-ever black mayor of Selma with 57% of the vote in a runoff election. On Oct. 2 he was congratulated by his mother at his swearing...
...late to count them. The Democrats had argued that the counting could continue up to Dec. 18, when the Electoral College meets, leaving enough time to develop a uniform standard and count all the votes. But the U.S. Supreme Court's majority held that the Florida legislature wanted electors chosen by Dec. 12, and since the ruling came down after 10 p.m. on that day, there simply was no more time to count votes. In other words, the court did not find that the certified results in Florida were accurate--only that it was too late to try to make...
Before the November election produced constitutional contortions unseen since 1876, we were considering a variety of candidates for Person of the Year. We have often chosen a new President-elect, but not always: neither John F. Kennedy nor Richard Nixon was selected the year...
...that we have evidence that W. Bush learns, he learns fast, and then he is Not Bad. He has a consistent pattern of searching out father figures as mentors in each field he's tried, and he's always selected good ones. In Texas he chose (or was chosen by; let's keep that open) lieutenant governor Bob Bullock, one of the shrewdest s.o.b.s who ever walked. Let's just say that if Bush had studied politics under Lyndon Johnson or Machiavelli, he couldn't have done better. Dick Cheney is apparently the new mentor, and I'm favorably impressed...
...careers of Bush's chosen treasury secretary and vice-president and his inherited Fed chairman all date back to the Ford years. For a new millennium in which the U.S. economy must learn to play without its superstar of the past eight years, some knowledge of the old problems - high energy prices, dispirited consumers, international uncertainty - could come in handy. The new Republican president remembers the Reagan tax cut. His advisers remember stagflation. As long as somebody remembers Gingrich, Clinton and the virtues of sound fiscal policy, a little spring turbulence could work out for all concerned...