Word: question
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Twenty-thousand ballots were thrown away, and those ballots matter very much in an election being decided by a few hundred votes," Offner said. "I'm here because I'm hoping for a revote in Palm Beach County. It's a procedural question of whether elections should represent the will of the people...
...after my father died this summer, I lost more than just my remaining parent. Four decades of childhood were also cut loose. Suddenly there were no family members to report to--or rebel against. And that's pretty scary. A new moral dilemma? A question about the stock market? A mature voice of reason? From this point on, the mirror would have to provide answers. Growing up is hard to do, especially when you're scheduled to enter middle...
...billion-dollar question is whether the last-minute ads make any difference. Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University, says that in the past two elections, Bill Clinton did himself far more good with early ads. "The effectiveness of advertising," he says, "probably diminishes the closer you get to the election itself." As if you Michiganders didn't know that already...
...time there taught me a lot about both politics and journalism. I had just assumed, for example, that I would be good at spinning journalists--after all, I was one of them. But I was a bust. My instinct was to give a direct answer to a direct question. Mistake. After one of the early debates, I was talking to a scrum of reporters and was asked about a certain line of attack by our rivals. "It's stupid," I said. And then quickly added, "That's off the record." Suddenly, the pack was shouting, "Hey, you know the rules...
...that incident, and Bush said no. Bush then seemed to want to amend his answer, Slater recalled, but spokeswoman Hughes prevented the interview from going further, leaving his answer as a denial. Hughes has disputed Slater's account, saying Bush insists he didn't answer no to the first question; by leaving Slater with the "impression" that there might have been another arrest in his life, she suggested, Bush was being straightforward. Slater didn't write about this exchange, but he described it to another writer, who included it in a profile of Hughes that appeared in the New Republic...