Word: grewing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...threatened to escalate into a full-scale culture war. The Bush team charged that Gore was disenfranchising the fighting men and women he wants to command as President. General Norman Schwarzkopf called it "a very sad day for our country." With the overseas ballots tallied, Bush's lead grew from 300 to 930 votes. The Vice President's team believes new Gore votes from the hand recounts might be sufficient to overcome that lead--if the court compels Harris to recognize them. But add the rejected military ballots to Bush's total, and the recount probably couldn't catch...
Milton, who as a teen used to hang out near airports watching planes take off and land, has been in love with the airline business his whole life. The son of an international-business executive, he grew up in Hong Kong, Belgium, Britain and Singapore. After graduating with a management degree from Georgia Tech in 1983, he used $15,000 from his dad to help start a company that chartered planes to larger airlines. He sold out five years later and became an industry consultant. Four years after that, his Atlanta-based boss, Hollis Harris, was named Air Canada president...
There is a certain hilarious motif of dynasties at work. Henry Adams said he grew up thinking every respectable American family included at least one president. His had two - John Adams and John Quincy Adams. The Bushes would like to make it two. The Clintons would like to make it two in the same generation...
...Gore, for his part, grew only more determined to fight as the week wore on. He believes, according to people who talked to him late last week, that if all the votes had been fairly counted, he would have won Florida by more than 30,000 votes. In his view, the fact that he won the national popular vote gives him license to prove he would have won Florida as well, were it not for badly designed ballots and faulty voting machines. The state court was reconciling conflicting statutes when it extended the deadline for completing the hand counts that...
...tricks, and this is just one more where I'm combining puppets and animals. This thing is basically practical jokes on live animals. I love all creatures. I love being around animals. I love being in a room with a sheep and a goat and a - I mean, I grew up in Manhattan - I always wanted to meet these people...