Word: ground
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Football in the Hand is Worth Three on the Ground: Harvard's first-half turnovers, all fumbles, were hardly fumbles at all. The Crimson never really had possession of the ball in the first place. The first "fumble" was actually a mental mistake by wide receiver/ punt returner Carl Morris...
...First, the snap bounced several inches in front of holder Kyle Cremarosa. The ball then skidded through his hands, and he ran back and picked it up. By this time, the entire Lehigh kick-blocking unit was upon him, and Cremarosa fluttered a pass that landed harmlessly on the ground nearby...
...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...
...Bush aides, who made a last-minute decision to dispatch Bush to West Virginia on the day before the first debate. Hoping to reverse the trend, Gore responded last week with an ad blasting Bush on the minimum wage, and the unions are kicking into gear on the ground: the United Mine Workers are considering an Election Eve blizzard of 10,000 phone calls...
...Much of that extra money, say Republican officials, will go toward waging the ground war in the campaign's final weeks. In both 1996 and 1998, Republicans were beaten by a superior Democratic get-out-the-vote effort spearheaded by the unions. This cycle, the G.O.P. has allotted about $45 million to a terrain fight, more than 21/2 times what it spent in 1996. The money is going toward everything from setting up phone banks to knocking on doors on Election Day to sending out targeted mail. "I do think this mail thing is a problem," frets a top Gore...