Word: split
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...focus turned to five states--Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nevada and Oregon. Florida's 25 electoral votes became the decisive factor, as the other states split their support...
...presidential election terminating the Clinton years ends in the ultimate Clintonism - an astonishing tie, a masterpiece of delicately balanced ambivalence. We end by looking at a split screen, like one of those old campaign buttons that shows you one image (Gore) if you look at it from one angle and a different image (Bush) if you tilt it slightly. I seem to see Clinton enter smilingly upon the chaotic scene: "Say, if y'all really can't make up your minds, why don't we just - I mean, if it ain't broke...
Polls are still showing the race incredibly tight. Nearly every national poll shows Bush ahead--but within the margin era. Estimates of which candidate would win the electoral vote are essentially split...
...brass tried to keep things upbeat at last week's press conference--called to announce that one of America's oldest and most revered institutions was splitting into four companies. AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong told a roomful of reporters that his own aunt could still sleep easily putting her money in Ma Bell and living off the dividends. Lower-level Bellheads even joked about the career opportunities the split would create. "You always wanted to run your own company," one quipped to another. "Now you're going to get the chance...
...smaller, nimbler companies will be more profitable independently. "With their own resources and asset-based stock they can shape their own destiny and future," says Armstrong. But the plan also reflects AT&T's frustration that investors have been so focused on its evaporating long-distance business. The split is designed to force Wall Street to pay more attention to faster-growing parts of the company...