Word: elect
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Nader also defended his candidacy against critics who argue that by voting for him and not Democrat Al Gore '69, voters will actually help elect Republican George W. Bush as president...
...Last week Kostunica was only a hopeful president-elect. While his supporters filled the streets shouting that Milosevic was finished, their nemesis still sat in his White Palace, as Belgrade dubs his official seat of power. He's used vote fraud, trumped-up crises and constitutional finagling to stay in power before. Serbs were finally brave enough to cast their votes against him. To get him out of his palace for good, they may have to take his power into their own hands...
...supply rather than demand, production rather than consumption, and above all oil, oil, oil, George W. Bush was in in Saginaw, Mich. (where folks certainly know something about cold winters and heating oil), on Friday to unveil his energy policy in an address. The theme: Want cheaper oil? Elect an oilman...
...These are immigrant families often working two or three jobs," she says. "They do not have the luxury of attending weekly meetings. They need to be able to elect someone on the governing board to speak for them...
...slips, his word manglings [NATION, Sept. 4], his inadequate knowledge of international politics and geography just owing to his having a bad day? I don't think so. It reminds me of some of the gaffes of former Vice President Dan Quayle. I hope Americans will not decide to elect a President who has similar dubious qualities. KURT E. SCHEWE Bad Hofgastein, Austria...