Word: mereness
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...somber George W. Bush assured the nation last night that he had won the U.S. presidential election, mere hours after the state of Florida finally certified his victory...
...thin election. Whether all this was the result of a racist plot or a by-product of insensitive police work and the incompetence of precinct workers remains to be investigated by the Justice Department. But in a sense, any skulduggery the feds discover will be beside the point, a mere footnote to the triumphant story of how this year the black vote came of age, thanks largely to Jesse Jackson. Lord knows he has his flaws, and over the years I've had plenty to say about them. But when it comes to turning blacks out on Election Day, Jackson...
...Mori is as unpopular as a leader could be. Recent surveys show a mere 15 percent of Japanese approve of him. Yet Kato badly miscalculated how many LDP lawmakers would join his coup and risk splitting the party that has ruled Japan for 42 of the last 45 years. He ended up walking away from the fight he started, in embarrassing fashion...
...fact, the objections to a popular vote are more serious than mere mechanics. In an election segmented into districts, voter power is higher--an individual's vote matters more because it has a much greater probability of swaying an election. No national contest could, like the present election, be decided by a few hundred votes. A districted election would also force candidates to have wider geographic appeal, a factor which may have lessened in importance since the constitutional convention but is still crucial to national unity...
...varying degrees of industrial protectionism that left the country undercapitalized, uncompetitive and underemployed. The country of 1 billion people has only 4.3 million PCs; the phone network is Third World at its worst. India's capacity for international telecom traffic will this year reach 780 megabits per second, a mere 1.4% of what's available in China. E-commerce is but a distant dream...