Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...year-old boy died on Tuesday after being shot three times in the head by police. The security forces were trying to disperse a crowd of citizens who had been prevented from voting in their elections. Four other people died, and 60 more were wounded, according to the Associated Press, as clashes between rival voters went from a war of words to a war of weapons in areas throughout Egypt. Police responded with tear gas, batons and bullets as the elections went on. In some areas, supporters of independent candidates literally broke down the doors of polling places...
...professional scene has provided us with precious little to cheer about this winter, with the possible exception of Celtics head fraud Rick Pitino threatening at a press conference last week that he is really serious this time about leaving the team at the end of this season...
...complain. To others in Red Sox nation, however, everything about this price increase stinks, right down to the timing of the announcement. Never blessed much in the way of PR savvy, the Red Sox stupidly sent out a press release announcing the price increase in the late afternoon on the day after Thanksgiving. Apparently their thinking was their could catch people away for the holiday weekend and maybe avoid the Saturday morning papers...
...however, Gore will continue to press for a full counting of Florida votes...
...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...