Word: gain
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Tigers were unable to complete the weekend sweep and gain first place in the ECAC on Saturday, falling 6-2 to RPI (8-3-1, 3-2-1) in Princeton...
Lazio entered the race in May and had "five months to gain name ID...half of my time was spent fundraising, preventing me from going grassroots...
...Justices affirm the Florida Supreme Court ruling, perhaps adding a short instruction that the Florida court rewrite its ruling to recognize that the state legislature, not the Florida constitution, controls how electors are appointed. Gore wouldn't gain any votes from such a ruling, but he would gain an important talking point. "He needs disputes to the Bush claims from someone other than his campaign staff, someone else saying these votes need to be counted," says one of the Vice President's advisers. Some Democratic graybeards say Gore's losses in the courts forced him on television too often last...
...both candidates are realizing that the sideshow could potentially decide the election. A lawsuit--filed not by Al Gore but by an Altamonte Springs personal-injury lawyer--demands that the county throw out some 15,000 absentee ballots because of alleged fraud. That would give Gore a net gain of about 5,000 votes, more than enough to win the White House. The plaintiff, a Democrat named Harry Jacobs, charges that because G.O.P. workers were allowed to fill in blanks on thousands of absentee-ballot applications last October, none of the ballots should count. A similar suit was filed Friday...
...That 58-vote gain is statistically useless and more than a little suspect; in fact the trend from Miami-Dade was running in Bush's direction. But no matter what happens on Monday, Al Gore doesn't want you to ever forget...