Word: lines
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...goal came with 1:20 left in the sudden death period, as a pair of sophomore defenseman connected to sink Maine (5-4-3, 2-1-1 Hockey East). Pete Summerfelt took a blue line pass from Trevor Byrne, and then stepped up to rip a 35-foot game winner past Maine junior Mike Morrison for the victory...
...line: Those 10,000 votes aren't votes at all, but merely "non-votes," since they went unread by the vote-counting machines. They represent only 1.6 percent of the total votes cast in the county, a lower percentage than in 34 Florida counties, not to mention in plenty of other places nationwide. "Not every person that comes to an election" votes for president, insisted Terrell. "When they say these votes are votes, they're wrong...
...line: Miami-Dade stopped counting because of time constraints, not lack of crowd restraint. Bartlit quoted an independent Miami-Dade canvassing board member describing the GOP crowds - there merely to protest the closed-to-the-press proceedings, Bartlit said - as "noisy and peaceful." Lieberman and other Democrats' charges of thuggery, Bartlit said, were "designed to heat up the situation." Bartlit's job is to cool...
...line: The Democrats haven't shown much inclination lately to play this trump card, but with a revote suit before the Florida Supremes, the Bush camp is taking no chances. The Bush line? Too late. Bristow insisted that "anyone who has concern about the form of the ballot has to express it before the election." And besides, it was designed and approved by Democrats...
...line: "No one at no time declared these votes illegal," Bristow said. The 218 votes at issue "were real votes by real people" (sound familiar?) and the Nassau canvassing board "discovered on machine recount that these votes were not counted," so they went with their original total. Simple as that...