Word: contestability
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Each Congressman was trying to outmaneuver the other in what is something of a popularity contest. But the sponsors of the festivities had their eye on the bottom line. Which of the two pro-business legislators wins scarcely matters to them so long as they maintain access to the winner...
...staff member close to Tauzin says, "Billy thinks it's in the bag." Maybe. The November contest for control of the House is tight, and odds are about even that the chairmanship will fall to neither Tauzin nor Oxley but to that old lion of the Democratic Party John Dingell...
...genius that even now seem incomprehensible. At 10 months, having spent his infancy watching his dad hit golf balls in the family garage in Cypress, Calif., Tiger picked up one of Earl's clubs and smacked a ball into the practice net--left-handed. He won a putting contest against Bob Hope at two. By six he was playing and beating 18-year-olds...
iCAST also has a "track of the day" (a recent pick by the alternative-rock duo Tegan and Sara was particularly good). In addition, the site held a "Land Your Band" contest in which groups were rated by iCAST users, with the highest-rated act (the rock group Laughing Colors, based in Annapolis, Md.) winning meetings with major-label executives. "I kind of laugh at all this Napster stuff," says Laughing Colors lead singer Dave Tieff. "At our stage, offering free tracks makes sense. We're trying to get noticed, and promotions like this are a tool." Tieff says sales...
...wise to plan an acceptance speech that is heavy on policy specifics. Better to emphasize the very real practical differences between Democrat Gore and Republican Bush than to depend too much on personality and atmospherics. Gore will not win against Bush among white males in a personality contest...