Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Material from the Associated Press was used in the reporting of this article...
...change in the game's momentum was generated by our defense," said Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan. "Our press and our zone propelled...
...Vice President's camp was right when it said Bush was trying to short-circuit the recount and hang on to his slender victory--because he too is convinced the job is rightfully his. Which is why, amid the mind-boggling array of court filings and counterfilings and dueling press conferences, there was really only one narrative line worth following: Bush's attempts (aided by the Democrats' favorite new villainess, Harris) to shut down the recounts, and Gore's maneuverings to keep them going at all costs. "As long as we're counting, it's not over," says a Gore...
Though Bush claimed to have disdain for "efforts to mold public opinion," his advisers, like Gore's, were obsessed with them. Rove and his team carefully weighed the question of how often to bring their man in front of the cameras. Tuesday and Wednesday they talked about herding the press corps to the ranch to show off Bush's good spirits. By Thursday they decided that things were going so well that the candidate didn't need to get in the way of the news. "The news in Florida was so good," an aide says, "we'd let it speak...
...from Dad's White House, retreated last week to his ranch to nurse a boil, surely a biblical reminder that we'll all need the patience of Job before this is over. He reappeared midweek to slap down Gore's surprise proposal to recount all 67 Florida counties. The press gave Bush mixed reviews for his candidate-held-hostage look, but reporters were already a bit cranky after a week of trying to cover what could be the next summer White House--close to the Days Inn in Waco, but 100 dusty miles from the Four Seasons in Austin...