Word: establish
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...Prime Minister fall, which would prompt new elections. So Sharon needs to move fast: his ideal play would be to cut a deal with Barak that would lever him into power and keep Netanyahu out of the picture. Sharon would stick around just long enough to establish himself firmly as Israel's conservative leader-in-waiting. Then he'd pull the plug and seek vindication at the polls...
...Singer, was, of course, about a white guy in blackface. And don't get me started on Driving Miss Daisy, or the fact that the black guy who played the fourth Ghostbuster didn't get to do much of anything. But recently, Hollywood has been working especially hard to establish two onscreen stereotypes. The first is the Magical African-American Friend. Along with Bagger Vance, MAAFs appear in such films as What Dreams May Come (1998), the upcoming Family Man (co-starring Don Cheadle) and last year's prison drama The Green Mile. In that film, Michael Clarke Duncan plays...
Speedy procurement is just part of the appeal. There are other cost advantages. Because it's expensive to establish contact with small-business customers, vendors are willing to cover all the transaction costs. And letting vendors battle in cyberspace drives the price down for the buyer. At cyberspace auctions, vendors know they have competitors and make every attempt to offer the best price. Auction sites are placing an increasingly high priority on prequalifying vendors, screening out sketchy suppliers and creating an important safety net for small businesses. "Knowing vendors are qualified can save a lot of time and money," says...
Another proposed solution would be to establish some degree of proportional representation within states, so that if 30 percent of a state's popular vote is Republican, the GOP receives 30 percent of the electoral votes. Doing so might make the votes of a local minority more meaningful, but the rounding errors involved in awarding 30 percent of eight electoral votes would magnify small differences in the popular vote. There is a virtue in simplicity as far as elections go: The more complex solutions become, the harder it will be to divine in advance the situations under which the system...
...without the benefit of such a forward-thinking executive branch, Floridians were stuck. Democrats were hoping that the justices will not only allow the hand recounts to continue and order them to be included in the final tally but also establish a uniform methodology for hand counts. Republicans, of course, wanted an even more conclusive response to the nagging question of voter intent: They were hoping the Court would call an end to the recounts altogether and toss the ballots, dangling chads and all, out the window...