Word: daye
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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George W. Bush had been no more nor less ignored than Al Gore throughout a long campaign that never really engaged the public. Surviving the debates, he led in the polls for 20 of the last 26 weeks leading to Election Day, then headed back to Texas to hunker down and, surrounded by his famous family, watch the returns. Now, finally, attention would be paid. It was clear very early that the race was close, but when Florida was called for Gore shortly before 8 p.m., despondency fell over the Bush clan. With tears in his eyes, brother Jeb, Florida...
...above) and waited for the courts to determine their fate. Finally, on June 28, the Supreme Court declined to consider the case, thus leaving in effect a decision respecting the father's wishes. The Gonzalez family headed for the airport. Their plane touched down outside Havana late in the day. Cubans in the U.S. and in the boy's homeland were chanting, for very different reasons, "Elian...
...Kostunica (inset) declared victory. Protest rallies were staged. The commission was resolute until a week of massive protests and strikes culminated in the storming of the Parliament (right) in Belgrade on Oct. 5. "I've just received official information that Vojislav Kostunica won the elections," Milosevic said the following day. "This decision was made by the body that was authorized to do so under the Constitution, and I consider that it has to be respected." Milosevic said he would continue to head the Socialists as an opposition party, but most felt his time had passed. His allies were another question...
...tons of greenhouse gases into the air, altering atmospheric chemistry and appreciably warming the planet in just a few decades. And as our population began the year 2000 above the 6 billion mark, still spreading across the continents, dozens of animal and plant species were going extinct every day, including the first primate to disappear in more than 100 years, Miss Waldron's red colobus...
...there were also, in the year 2000, signs of greater awareness. Linked by the Internet, hundreds of millions of people rallied for the cause of conservation on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. Governments from Washington to Lima took steps to protect large wilderness areas from development. Progress was made toward using more renewable energy from the wind and the sun, and new hybrid cars that used both gasoline and electricity sported impressive fuel-economy statistics...