Word: dakotas
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DIED. GEORGE MONTGOMERY, 84, film and TV actor known for cowboy roles in westerns such as The Cisco Kid and the Lady and Dakota Lil; of heart failure; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Married for 19 years to Dinah Shore, Montgomery appeared in more than 85 films...
...current system, the argument goes, and popular vote gains preeminence, the inhabitants of the nation's four or five most populated states might decide presidential elections on their own. And while residents of said states might not have a problem with such an outcome, folks out in North Dakota and Montana might see things a bit differently. Citizens of sparsely populated areas (and the congresspersons who represent them) have grown fond of the electoral system, which affords them a disproportionately loud voice in the voting process. Wyoming, for example, casts the minimum three electoral votes; one for each senator...
Despite a first-place ECAC prediction, St. Lawrence has not been living up to expectations. With only two wins in their pockets, the Saints are currently in a three-game tail spin after suffering defeats at the hands of rival Clarkson and reigning national champion North Dakota...
...Bush campaign's attacks on hand counting, the fact is that it has a well-established place in election law. Florida law expressly provides for hand recounts. And courts that have reviewed elections decided by hand recounts--from Alaska to Indiana to South Dakota--have overwhelmingly supported them. If the Florida Supreme Court is concerned about the way in which hand counting is occurring, it could take steps to oversee it more directly, either by setting out its own counting standards or by appointing a special master to supervise the process...
When South Dakota Democrat Tom Daschle became minority leader of the Senate in 1994, expectations couldn't have been much lower. After all, Daschle was one of the greenest leaders in congressional history: at 47, in just his second term in the Senate, he had never even chaired a committee. His supporters had been mostly from the younger generation of Senators elected in his class. After he squeaked into the leader's job by a one-vote margin, elder Democrats tittered behind the scenes, sure he would turn to putty in the masterly hands of majority leader Bob Dole...