Word: nationally
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first six months, the nation argued the fate of Elian Gonzalez, the 6-year-old miracle child rescued off the Florida coast after a shipwreck had killed his mother and 10 others as they fled Cuba. The argument boiled down to family vs. freedom--was the boy better off in Cuba with his father or in Miami with relatives?--and vented long-dormant cold war-era passions. The boy and his father finally returned to Cuba in June, but the argument lives...
...Florida was 200,000 votes, and although Dade and Broward counties were yet to report, the mood in the mansion was optimistic. Shortly thereafter it was jubilant as, at 2:15 a.m., Florida was called for Bush and the Governor became, in the eyes of the networks and the nation, the President-elect. He hugged his dad, kissed his mom and embraced his drained and relieved brother. Then he took the congratulatory phone call from Vice President Gore...
...motion a raid to seize Elian. At 5 a.m. federal agents moved in, powered past 50 protesters and moved swiftly through the house. The boy was found in the arms of Donato Dalrymple, one of his fisherman rescuers, and was taken without violent incident. He was flown to the nation's capital and then sequestered at a house in suburban Maryland where he and his father got reacquainted (above) and waited for the courts to determine their fate. Finally, on June 28, the Supreme Court declined to consider the case, thus leaving in effect a decision respecting the father...
...since African American Jesse Owens ran upside Hitler at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin has a footrace been freighted with so much extra-athletic significance. Modern Australia is in debate over the nation's poor-to-horrid treatment of the island's original settlers, the Aborigines. Now here was an Aboriginal seeking glory, and baldly admitting that she sought it not only for her country but for her people. Four hundred meters is a distance that allows tension to build, and when Freeman came off the near turn trailing, it was almost unbearable. Then she surged, and won. The audience...
...clear himself of the term recession. ?Possible slowdown? is one way he puts it. But dirty work is what Vice Presidents are for. So Dick Cheney has been sent out to say the forbidden word. As early as Dec. 3, he was on Meet the Press warning that the nation ?may well be on the front edge of a recession...