Word: decked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Mexico has worked this out. If the voters deadlock, the law hands the outcome over to a game of chance: the candidates can flip a coin, draw a card from a deck or play a hand of poker--assuming they can agree. Florida law allows for drawing straws. But this tie is elusive, imperfect as the election that produced it because when you are shuffling through 6 million votes and double-punched ballots and hanging chads and missing postmarks and the whole archaeology of human frailty, every count by machine or by hand yields a different result, each so close...
...decaf." His very presence undercuts former Secretary of State James Baker's dire warnings that if we persist in this crazy "unconstitutional" recount, markets will collapse, world leaders will wobble and general mischief will abound. In Baker's view, the bipartisan counters are secret croupiers itching to stack the deck. There are more surveillance cameras than in a Las Vegas casino and more on-site baby sitters than in your average day-care center, but somehow these volunteers are going to cook the books...
...unusual place for them to be. Wu-Tang revels in its own unpredictability, its own inscrutability and its own ungainly nature. Wu-Tang is a conglomeration of rappers that includes RZA (the mastermind and main producer), Method Man (the star MC), Masta Killa, U-God, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah and Ol' Dirty Bastard. A tenth rapper, Cappadonna, is regarded as an honorary member. While other groups rage and split and fall apart when members look to release solo work, Wu-Tang's boundaries are loose. All of the members have authored solo albums at one time or another...
...find corporations willing to put up all that money to fund it. So we basically said if we've got X amount of dollars, we'll make sure that a large portion of that goes to the artist whose record it is, which may be Method Man or Inspectah Deck, but U-God and everyone else ate off of it, as well. They appeared on the records or whatever - but we found ways for everyone to get paid. And the same when the U-God album dropped. Others got paid in ways in which maybe he didn...
...senior class has a huge impact both in the water and on the deck," Murphy said. "They set the pace for the team...