Word: returning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...concession speech Tuesday night, Al Gore humbly noted that he wanted to return to Tennessee to "mend fences." The remark was in reference to his surprising loss of his own home state. But there are some other surprising fences Gore may need to mend: relations with his own campaign staff...
After directly addressing the Zapatista rebels in his inaugural speech, Fox has taken concrete steps to reduce the tension in Chiapas. Fox declared that his actions will speak for themselves, and he has lived up to that pledge. He has eliminated military roadblocks, ordered soldiers to return to their barracks and offered amnesty to some Zapatista prisoners. Fox has also appointed a new official, highly respected by the Zapatistas, to head the negotiations with the rebels...
...date electors shall meet and give their votes' and specifying 'the fourth Wednesday in December' - this year, December 27 - as the date on which Congress, if it has not received a State's electoral votes, shall request the state secretary of state to send a certified return immediately. But none of these dates has ultimate significance in light of Congress' detailed provisions for determining, on 'the sixth day of January,' the validity of electoral votes...
...popularity may be the surest sign that Israel is in no mood to make peace right now. He has already begun campaigning, playing on Israeli anxiety in the face of the renewed Palestinian intifada to charge that Barak's peace efforts have compromised Israel's security, and promising a return to his peace-through-strength philosophy. It may be a measure of the depth of their fears that many of the same Israeli voters who drove Netanyahu out of office only 18 months ago for his failure to make meaningful progress toward peace with the Palestinians are now flocking back...
...solve the problem, and ultimately they'll be back at the peace table. And Israel's fractious and complicated parliamentary system allows a prime minister to win by a landslide but even then struggle to maintain a workable majority government (as Barak did). Now, Netanyahu looks set to return to the same booby-trapped office. But even having to govern via a traditionally fractious Israeli coalition government won't stop Netanyahu from keeping his foot firmly jammed on the brake of the peace process. Or at least, proceeding only in Bibi steps...