Word: counted
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...poison the well by questioning the other side's patriotism. Where is George W.--the great reacher-out, the great healer--while that is going on? It is the Bush machine, not the Gore machine, that encouraged supporters to storm the office where Miami-Dade officials were trying to count votes. It is Republican leaders in Tallahassee and Washington, not Democratic ones, who weave lurid scenarios of legislative intervention if they don't get their way. So which side is trying to "change the rules in the middle of the game...
...Acela Express zooms along the New England coastline at up to 150 m.p.h., bare trees and backyards flying by, it's hard to believe that the nation's first high-speed train is really the work of Amtrak. Where is the sluggish, lurching ride we've come to count on--and curse--from the nation's famously floundering passenger-rail operator...
...deficit of funds and support. Her son Ludo--the result of a one-night stand with a man Sibylla calls Liberace on account of his mawkish mediocrity--is some kind of insatiable genius; the minute he learns one thing, he gobbles up the next. "I taught him to count past 5 and he counted up to 5,557 over a period of three days before collapsing in sobs because he had not reached the end...I taught him to add 2 to a number and he covered 20 sheets with 2+2=4 3+2=5," Sibylla explains...
...enough funds to keep our children from abuse, starvation and exploitation. But somehow money is found to finance prisons for the damaged survivors of our foster-care programs. As a society we have to reorganize our system to protect the future generations, or all that expensive space research will count for nothing and we will be lost in the chaos of our own planet. CLAIRE TARRANT Mississauga...
...Casually dropping an unusually prompt decision at noon on a nation waiting for a ruling from Judge Sanders Sauls on his weekend festivities, the Court "vacated" (wiped off the books) the Florida Supreme Court's decision to extend the certification and hand-count deadlines, essentially resetting the clock to November 17 and the Bush lead to 930 votes. But only till the Florida Supremes try again...