Word: contestability
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Crimson is to win the Ivy League this year, it will need to shake off any pre-game jitters and enter each contest like it has already been playing for five minutes. That is precisely why there are warm-ups before a game, to steady the nerves, find the shooting touch and try to intimidate the other players, who are undoubtedly sizing up the competition out of the corners of their eyes...
...took more than brains to get onto the show. Although all the contestants had to pass a 30-question test similar to the "fastest finger" contest, they were ultimately picked based on their "poise, sense of humor and television presence" during videotaped interviews with "Millionaire" producers...
...American people have been patient. I wonder if they are not losing their sunny disposition. In dragging the matter to court, we have defaulted to the typically American solution. But are there not other typically American solutions - ones that would be more entertaining?. Why not make it an athletic contest? Gore and Bush both seem to be in good shape - although I sense that Al has let himself go lately...
...nasty semantic trap about why they weren't calling Bush "president-elect" yet), though she needn't have bothered - the Bush lawyers in question had already prepared us for their rejection Tuesday morning. Barry Richard, Bush's version of David Boies, explained that Gore was dragging them into this contest at a very late date, having already gotten the Florida Supremes to delay certification by 11 days. And they certainly weren't going to wait around for a hand count in Miami-Dade that has already missed two deadlines, and wasn't necessary in the first place...
...first, and perhaps most important, contest of the new election campaign will be the battle for the Likud party's nomination. Party leader Ariel Sharon believes he's the man for the job, and has been agitating in recent weeks for an even more aggressive Israeli response to the Palestinian uprising, including expanded use of selective assassinations and cutting off water and electricity supplies to Palestinian territories. But Sharon also has to contend with a high negative rating among many Israelis, made worse by his provocative visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount two months ago, which set off the current...