Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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What we got instead was a year so copacetic, Neville Chamberlain could have handled it (at least for the first 10 months). The year was, until November, so boring that people across the globe staged protests over higher gas prices and trade-group meetings...
...rest of the year, the public did its best to ignore two presidential candidates, George W. Bush and Al Gore, who insisted there were big issues at stake. Instead of paying attention to them, most folks watched some fascinating scenes roll past: thousands of anti-globalization protesters disrupting a World Bank conference in Washington; Ford and Firestone executives blaming one another for a string of auto fatalities; Bill Clinton taking a last, slow lap around the presidential track as his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton made her first successful run for public office. Finally, the presidential campaign that everyone thought...
...year rife with space-age communication, space-age travel, once a presumed inevitability of the new millennium, wasn't happening. Instead, the hip mode of transportation evoked the era of Eisenhower, if not the Flintstones. The foot-propelled scooter captivated virtually every age group in every community across America. Collapsible, portable and all but useless for even medium-distance commutes, the scooter achieved enough prominence to generate its own backlash: injuries to riders, irritation to pedestrians. For the duration of its extended moment, the scooter answered a nostalgia for an earlier age and a desire for frivolity in this...
...arts-fin-de-siecle-for end-of-the-century ennui. So why none for the vague sense of disappointment when a century begins and precious little changes? In the year 2000--the year 2000!--we were supposed to be listening to Theremin symphonies and watching theater in our heads. Instead, we were slinging misogynist raps and hosting game shows, just like yesterday...
...second-most populous, supplanting Democratic stronghold New York. Implications: If the election were held all over again - perish the thought - and Bush won exactly the same states, he would win the electoral college 278-260, rather than 271-267. And House Republicans would have a 16-seat majority instead of nine...