Word: protestations
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...began its sanctions on grapes in 1984 to protest the unfair and hazardous working conditions its members felt were being imposed on grape farmers...
...watch the Dade County vote recount - something to do before the trip to the Seaquarium. But Strayer, it turns out, is a top aide to New Mexico's Republican congresswoman, Heather Wilson, and was one of hundreds of paid GOP crusaders who descended on South Florida last Wednesday to protest the state's recounts. "The system is unfair, inaccurate, fraught with human error!" Strayer cried. In a Winnebago outside, GOP operatives orchestrated the ranks up to the 19th floor, hoping to halt the tally of the largest potential lode of Gore votes. Republicans, not usually known for takin...
...Israel had responded with air raids on Gaza after two Israelis were killed Monday in a bomb attack on a school bus, but that action had only served to weaken Israel's diplomatic position. Egypt recalled its ambassador in protest of the Israeli air raids, signaling a new chill in relations between the country and its longest-standing Arab peace partner. Even the United States criticized the Israeli action as "disproportionate and excessive." And that Wednesday car bombing proved that heavy Israeli retaliation was unlikely to stop terror attacks...
...repair Israel's diplomatic bridges to the Arab world may be too little, too late. Defense Secretary William Cohen met Wednesday with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and implored him to reverse Cairo's decision to recall its ambassador from Israel. But having made the dramatic diplomatic gesture in protest against Israel's bombardment of Gaza Monday night in retaliation for the bombing of a school bus, the Egyptian leader can't very easily reverse it now - not even under pressure from the U.S., which pays Egypt some $2 billion a year to be Israel's friend. Egypt's move...
...first line to draw was between "protest" and "contest." Joseph Klock, for Harris, argued that the Gore team was "trying to conduct a contest proceeding before there is a certification." Meaning that if Democrats have evidence that the election result Harris wants to certify is incorrect, let her certify it - and then the law gives them from the first certification (a week after the election) until the end of the world...