Word: cleaned
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...goal is for people to find out the conditions, and start boycotting, " Denvir said. "Only when people do that, and it starts hitting the pockets of these companies will they really clean up their...
Clinton seemed to enjoy nothing more than opposing the Republicans' more extreme proposals. He blocked initiatives to weaken wetlands protection, sell off federal forests to ski resorts, provide exemptions to the Clean Air Act for oil refineries and repeal the law that regulates pesticides in foods. But often these issues were merely deferred, not settled. Most visible is the case of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), 19.6 million acres of pristine tundra in northeast Alaska populated by vast herds of caribou and other wildlife. Clinton vetoed a 1995 bid by Republicans to open the refuge...
...modern times finally came to an end. In an election that deeply divided the American people, Congress and the Supreme Court, Gore rightly fought to the end not only for his espoused campaign goals but also for every American's right to vote. He ran a strong and clean race, not merely resting on President Clinton's legacy of peace and prosperity but promising that more can be done to help America's least well...
...have died by the legend. Many voters--45 percent, to be exact--would probably find this statistic to be the only positive thing about Election 2000, although I personally would prefer to have a president too incompetent to do damage in office over one who voted against the Clean Water Act (our new Vice President-elect Richard B. Cheney). However, a legend's a legend, and a legend doesn't care about personal opinions...
...undervote count lasting past Dec. 12 - the Florida Supreme Court showed neither the right nor the skill to grant. Not with time running short. Bush's advantage, headed into a delicate presidency, is that most of America had suspected as much all along. This was not that kind of clean fight; these were not that kind of fighters...