Word: handed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hand, Driskell ran one of the most successful campaigns in council history last year, crushing her opponents with more than twice as many votes as anyone else...
Unfortunately, alums in the humanities are less likely to have enough cash on hand to endow a major building than alums in business or science. As a result, it is much tougher to find people from whom money can be raised for more liberal-arts type concentrations. Without the huge financial resources of business-oriented or technical departments, these concentrations are at risk of being shortchanged with antiquated equipment and fewer faculty. This unfair scenario is replayed on a larger scale with the University's graduate schools; the Business School, because of its donor base, has far more resources than...
...Harris certified George W. Bush the winner by 537 votes. But even as Bush asked Dick Cheney to head a transition team and named Andrew Card his chief of staff, the Democratic faithful were primed to fight on--especially after Harris decided to leave out the results of the hand count Palm Beach canvassers stayed up all night to produce. "How can we teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good-faith effort to count every vote?" asked Al Gore's running mate Joe Lieberman. "Vice President Gore and I have...
...Bush saw it, the only reason he was not happily vetting Cabinet members was because the Democrats wanted to change the rules for deciding elections, and the Florida Supreme Court decided to let them. When the justices ruled Tuesday night that the hand counts could proceed, provided they were finished by 5 p.m. Sunday, the Bush camp for the first time felt some genuine dread. "I guess the rules aren't the rules anymore," said an ally bitterly. Didn't it mean anything that the votes had been counted and counted again; the state legislature had set a one-week...
...accepting ballots that were merely indented, not fully punched through. "They're casting votes, not counting votes," Bob Dole told reporters Friday, part of the Republican SWAT team of celebrity poll watchers. When Lee's team finally finished around midnight Saturday, he dispatched a lawyer to Tallahassee to physically hand the results over to Katherine Harris, since he had heard that her fax lines might be conveniently tied up all afternoon...