Word: preventable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Clearly, all of the legally-cast ballots in the state of Florida should have been counted; the willingness of both Republicans and Democrats to try to disenfranchise some voters through litigation was startling. In particular, the efforts of President-elect George W. Bush to prevent a statewide recount were disappointing. We believe that this intransigence was born out of a fear that a recount would show that the people of Florida actually chose Gore for the presidency...
...inability to secure such "luxuries" is due solely to one factor. Not council apathy or laziness, not even council incompetence, but money, and the council's lack of it, is what will prevent us from getting our much needed dumbbells and Comedy Central...
Snee's 35 saves were not enough to prevent the Dutchmen from their third consecutive loss...
...machines, but Bush cross-examinations saw to it that their testimony took up most of the day. Bush's team offered two witnesses and planned to call 18 more. At times the proceedings dwelled on small but crucial matters, like whether old chads build up behind ballots and sometimes prevent a hole from being fully punched. Gore won a victory on that point, but Bush lawyer Phil Beck expertly cross-examined the Gore team's statistician, Yale professor Nicolas Hengartner. The professor had to admit that he had in fact never inspected a certain ballot that he claimed to have...
Though consumers love to use bots to find a deal, wary merchants see them as agents for profit-busting bidding wars. Some sellers at first erected barriers to prevent these price-foraging bots from getting any information. Not a shrewd move, as online customers simply passed those sellers by. Others outsmarted the bots by listing a very low price and then, as the order was made, zapping the shopper with stiff shipping costs...