Word: everly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Even before the clock struck midnight, you knew it wasn't happening. Prices had been slashed for undersold events--even ones that involved Sting. The Champagne shortage, despite an ever increasing number of rap video shoots, never materialized. So when the global odometer first flipped in New Zealand--a place experts believed was so dependent on technology it would surely implode if its computers believed the year was 1900--it was only a little shocking that absolutely nothing happened anywhere on or above the globe. Airplanes stayed in the air. Y2K bunker dwellers began to pack up canned food...
...relatives in Miami, and they took him in. Immediately, debate flared over whether Elian should stay in the U.S. or be returned to his father in Cuba. Fidel Castro's regime staged rallies demanding the latter course. In the U.S., as a crowd of Elian "supporters" grew ever larger outside the small house, the boy's case wound its way through the courts. Politicians took sides, with anti-Castro Republicans arguing for asylum, and Democrats asking for the letter of the law, which seemed to indicate that a father's will should prevail. As the situation in Little Havana grew...
...that he didn't get thrown out as an anachronism. He was running for a 10th re-election when, on Sept. 12 at age 70, he finally came up on the short end of a vote. James Perkins Jr., 47, a former computer consultant, was chosen as the first-ever black mayor of Selma with 57% of the vote in a runoff election. On Oct. 2 he was congratulated by his mother at his swearing...
...understand that Omaha is in the Great Plains, where space is not at a premium. You can pirouette down the sidewalk in Omaha if you want to. But space is limited here in New York City. And no New Yorker ever walks more than two abreast; even if you're in a group of ten people, you'll walk in five pairs, not ten across. Or even better, single file...
...student in Little Rock, Arkansas, he was in the band rather than on the football team. The camera shot of him walking by himself - steely-jawed and deeply self-conscious - along a narrow hallway into the Democratic convention was one of the most hilarious minutes of television I've ever seen...