Word: fears
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...what really may have given the canvassing board pause was a sight that strikes fear in any Florida politician, especially elected Dade County judges like Lawrence King, the board's chairman: angry Cuban voters. They marched on the Clark Center after a conservative radio station, Radio Mambí, broadcast interviews with two Cuban-American GOP members of Congress, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who decried the board's moves. For Miami's Cubans, almost 80 percent of whom voted for Bush, this election is mostly about avenging Elian Gonzalez. One of Judge King's paid political consultants...
...disadvantage of unlimited terms is that they allow prime ministers to consolidate and potentially abuse power. The fear is that they might become dictators or tyrants. While this indeed may be a real fear in many countries, Canadians are blissfully free of such a worry. Chretien is so little self-concerned that the security around his official residence was minimal enough to allow, in 1995, for an intruder to break in. Prime Minister Chretien was left to fend for himself and his wife with a piece of Native artwork until police arrived almost ten minutes later...
Opponents of the Electoral College system have argued quite convincingly that it restrains popular choice. The reasons for its original adoption--a desire to empower states and fear of regional candidacies--were undemocratic and no longer apply to modern society. Because the Electoral College separates the election into districts, it enables a candidate who has lost the popular vote to take the White House; it also may discourage from voting those who are in a local minority, such as Massachusetts Republicans...
...other words, Gore's spinners and his red-hot lawyers will be working Thanksgiving too, trying to turn public opinion into something for Florida Republicans to fear. The Gore team, which made such hay all campaign long with the ironies in Bush's Texas record, will start in tonight on that dimple-friendly Texas hand-count law and never let up; Baker tonight began the p.r. task of explaining it away. The question of dimples is still a question, and if the Bush lawyers continue to strike out it'll be the only question...
HIGH ANXIETY Your teenager may not know agoraphobia (a fear of public places) from Aerosmith, but adolescents who smoke a pack or more a day are five times as likely to develop it as their smoke-free peers. They're also five times as likely to experience an anxiety disorder and a whopping 12 times as likely to develop panic disorder. With any luck that'll scare them off smoking for good...