Word: final
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush's people say the loophole's a lot smaller than Gore's people say, and they're quietly celebrating their successful defense (to whatever extent it turns out to be successful) of the 5 p.m. deadline. At the very least, they see the Friday final tally emerging at decision time, and they hope that recounts in populous Democratic enclaves like Dade and Palm Beach won't have turned up enough Gore votes by then to beat them. In the meantime, they're intent on being the side that stops the insanity, so expect to hear more disarmament offers from...
...spokesman for Harris emerged in the afternoon to say that the secretary of state would be open to including amended manual recounts through the week, depending on the reason. But with or without Palm Beach, the state of Florida seems determined to have a final tally for the public on Saturday morning. Unless somebody sues...
...sorry to keep you all waiting," court administrator Terre Cass before delivering the Gore camp - and the Florida counties determined to get hand-recounts into the official tally - the bad news. The judge gave Harris discretion for including "supplemental or corrective returns" before the final deadline of midnight Friday, but said she "must not do so arbitrarily...
...election, former secretary of state James Baker appeared before reporters in Tallahassee and urged once more for a endgame that would "take this process out of the courts." The adjusted disarmament offer: Let the manual recounts continue - but only until the 5 p.m. deadline, and then use Friday's final number (absentee ballots included) as the deciding number. Both sides drop their lawsuits and settle...
Last call for saving the planet... The final round of negotiations over the Kyoto Protocol on climate change opened in the Netherlands on Monday, and right now Earth's prospects don't look so good - that is if you believe, unlike would-be president-elect George W. Bush, that there is a scientific link between global warming and carbon gas emissions. The current talks are being held to meet a deadline for finalizing the 1997 Kyoto treaty, which requires industrialized nations to dramatically reduce emissions from the use of oil, coal and other fossil fuels. Kyoto emerged out of concern...