Word: contestability
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...told her family that she too would one day wear a glittering crown. Her parents smiled at her adolescent fantasies, talked about college and dismissed the whimsical ambition. But Yukta sulked and threw tantrums and eventually persuaded her father to support her participation in the 1999 Miss India contest. She won that title and later became Miss World, planting fantasies, no doubt, in the minds of other teenage Indian girls. Now those kids have even more inspiration to draw from. Last week another Indian, Lara Dutta, who was chosen this year's Miss Universe, came home to glorious parties...
...drama and the contest are pretty much out of the way by Super Tuesday," he said...
Another friend, John Leo, once won, hands down, a contest to propose the title of the most boring book in the world. Leo's entry was this: "Utility Rates in Toronto: A Revisionist View...
...Texas, and he sure wasn't there figuring to snag the state's electoral jackpot. The message was for the other 49 - look at this mess! Look at these suckers! "The presidency," he said at an insta-forum in the land of the Alamo, "is not a popularity contest...
...nominating. Voters aren't hearing Bush warn against that, however. He doesn't want people to focus on the Supremes. He doesn't want to remind moderate women that he opposes the right to choose. And he knows that if people keep seeing this as a Coke-vs.-Pepsi contest, he wins...