Word: fielding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush strategy was to take away what it considers Gore's only moral leverage. And so Baker was really offering Gore an exit strategy: depart the field now, as the clear popular-vote winner, and live to fight another day - in 2004, Gore will be only 57 - or take your chances, face a popular-vote recount elsewhere, and risk losing that imprimatur as party leader, heroic victim, Mr. Popularity. Bush's people were betting Gore would take this sooner or later. But the offer may not last long. "If they want to play hardball, fine," said a Bush aide...
Penn presents an explosive set of wide receivers for Crimson defensive backs. Junior wideout Rob Milanese is fifth in Division I-AA in receptions, averaging 7.4 grabs per game. On the other side of the field, senior Doug O'Neill has 43 catches on the season, averaging over five per game. This powerful combination forces the opposing defenses to concentrate on both receivers, rather than just smothering one of them...
...Field Director Michael Whouley, sitting at Gore headquarters outside Nashville, noticed a peculiarity in the incoming Florida returns and paged Gore's traveling Chief of Staff Michael Feldman. Reached in the motorcade just two blocks from the Plaza, Feldman listened as Whouley explained that Bush's lead had shrunk to just 6,000 votes...
...Crimson (11-7, 4-3 Ivy) earned the chance to continue on in the tourney by defeating Quinnipiac 2-1 in the opening round yesterday at Ohiri Field...
...feeling a lot better and getting a lot stronger," Weed said. " I was really, really happy to get back out on the field. It's great to be back...