Word: ground
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...restart, Princeton sophomore Ilvy Friebe made a spectacular play on a loose ball just inside the circle. With the ball seemingly just out of reach, she dove and swung her stick forcefully from ground-level. Still sprawled on the turf, she raised her stick in celebration as her shot beat Zacarian for the game-icing goal...
Having put full force behind the ball, she fell over backwards. But as she hit the dirt, the ball hit the net just inside the left post. When Westfall stood up, her feet left the ground again, but this time she was leaping up and down in celebration...
...matter as much as who prevails in a series of Verdun-style conflicts in key areas of targeted states--sometimes even individual neighborhoods. "It's an old infantry expression," says Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, a Bush ally whose state is one of the biggest prizes. "Once you take ground, you have to keep...
Each candidate's allies are doing the same. Whereas organized labor put much of its money into TV ads in 1996, AFL-CIO political director Steve Rosenthal says, "A much greater percentage of our effort now is aimed at mobilizing voters on the ground--outside plants and work sites, with a lot of one-on-one contact, a lot of phone calls, weekend walks where union members go door-to-door in their communities." The National Rifle Association is buying subscriber lists to sporting magazines, names of people who have sold firearms at gun shows and other information to produce...
...family members or other surrogates. It highlights places that may respond to a sudden infusion of ad money or to "free media" generated by a campaign visit. When Gore's top advisers confer each morning about where to spend their ad dollars, where to dispatch the candidate and which ground operations need bolstering, the map--along with twice weekly polls and focus groups in battleground states--is one of their crucial tools...