Word: final
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Harvard opened the scoring in the first period and never looked back, carrying a 3-0 lead until the final seconds of the third period and extending its overall and ECAC winning streak to five games, which would become six games after Sunday...
...Florida litigants, in a paneled courtroom in Leon County, labored late into the night, focusing their final arguments on the legitimacy of manual recounts, and where they were more reliable than machine tabulations...
...finish the job, Gore believed, it could provide him the margin he needed. Gore planned to contest the county's decision and told people he would accept a bipartisan "master" to oversee a recount; but that would involve days and days of counting and a new deadline for a final tally. "The tragedy is we have truth on our side," said a top Gore adviser, "but time...
...changing the state's election laws after the voting. Democrats insist that resolving the conflicting provisions did not amount to rewriting the law. Somewhat ironically, they also find themselves on the side of states' rights in arguing against the Republicans that state rather than federal courts should be the final arbiter of state election laws. Bush brought the case to the Supreme Court, and it might be considered moot if he's the top vote getter in the later as well as earlier tallies...
...right to step in and select the state's 25 electors. If the outcome remains in doubt as the Dec. 12 deadline approaches, the Republican-dominated legislature may attempt simply to select the Bush electors. A more radical possibility is that if Gore is ahead of Bush in the final count, the legislature could overturn that result and certify the Bush electors...