Word: favor
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...German DJ Timo Maas, the newest darling of the dance music scene. But his success was far from assured-faced with rain-soaked clubbers sporting high expectations (other weekend visitors to Boston included big-shot DJs Laurent Garnier and Judge Jules), Maas had to work to win the favor of his Lansdowne Street crowd...
...success in leading Cote d'Ivoire lay in his understanding of the ethnic diversity of the country. His successors have instead played up ethnic tensions in their bids to retain power, and the disenfranchisement of the vast majority of Ivorians in this electoral process has been ignored in favor of short-term political stability...
Aides aren't sure yet what Daschle will do with the Senate floor or his Democratic chairmen those 17 days. But if a dispute over Florida's electors ever reaches the Senate - and Gore could cast the tie-breaking vote in his favor - you can be sure Daschle won't squander his short-lived power...
...flow of the argument - adversarial, but often bordering on the arcane, at least for this idiot - also showed that some of the arguments in favor of broadcasting the court's sessions are probably exaggerated. In particular, the idea that the raw video would truly educate the viewing public more than legal analysts do seems a bit bogus, what with all this abstruse section 2 and section 5 and section 15 business. More likely, we laymen will focus on who gets off the best zingers - our armchair analysis determined by our pre-existing beliefs - then let Rush or Chris Matthews spin...
...decision is a mild rebuke of Bush's argument against hand counts. A strong ruling in Gore's favor, having a similar effect of leaving Florida to its own devices, would be a slightly stronger one. But either would only require the Bush camp to continue the fight in the Florida courts, which it's doing anyway. Both of those would puff Gore's chest out a bit, but not change much once the dust settled...