Word: closed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...little bit; for better or worse, the spot sent a message about Bush's willingness to "do what it took" to win. Unfortunately, he chose to deny the responsibility for the stroke of near-brilliance (small wonder: who would have believed that he could come up with something so close-to-ingenuous?) and to pull the ad from the airwaves. The void left by the spot was filled, predictably, with a lot of sound and fury that failed to earn Bush a spot even in the little picture-in-picture...
...three minutes into the second half, the Crimson's hot hands went cold, as the outside sharpshooters missed seven three-pointers in the second half. This reliance on the outside shot, coupled with the Crimson's inability to break the full-court press of the Terriers, enabled B.U. to close within eight before Harvard pulled away...
When Lopes first arrived, however, she says there was little of today's sense of Portuguese solidarity. She only chose Cambridge so that she could be close to her brother-in-law, who had immigrated from Portugal some years before...
After the Florida State Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, Nov. 21 that Secretary of State Katherine Harris had to include the results of manual recounts in her certification, Gore's ground operation was confident that they'd close the slim margin of victory that George W. Bush had obtained...
...persuade the Justices that in ruling against Gore's contest of Florida's election results, Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sanders Sauls abused his judicial discretion and relied upon a flawed legal standard, misinterpreting Florida's election law, which, according to Gore lawyers, specifically allows recounts in very close elections. "If this state's contest provision is to have any meaning," the Gore brief states, "the meaning must be this: It is a mechanism for determining if state authorities certified the wrong candidate as a winner of the election...