Word: stated
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Nowhere has that been truer than in Florida over the past two weeks. Going into the election, it looked like the presidency would be determined by the candidates' positions on issues such as prescription drugs and tax cuts. Now it seems likely to turn on how courts interpret obscure state election laws and arcane questions of administrative discretion...
...Secretary of State Harris has weighed in, urging leeway - so has the Department of Defense. (So has Norman Schwarzkopf.) But different counties are counting different ways, the spinners are out in force and the lawyers are sharpening their briefcases. A new war is brewing...
...want to be clear - neither Governor Bush, nor the Florida secretary of state, nor I, will be the arbiter of this election," Gore said. "This election is a matter that must be decided by the will of the people as expressed under the rule of law, law which has meaning as determined in Florida now by the Florida Supreme Court." Throw in the usual undeniable boilerplate - "The American people want to make certain that every vote counts and that every vote is counted fairly and accurately" - and it practically sells itself...
...into a crowd and shake hands. Indeed, for all the diplomatic and historic significance of Clinton's trip to a country that has figured so prominently in his own political history, by far the most gratifying aspect has been the warm reception he's gotten from the average Vietnamese. State media downplayed the visit, and officials tried to limit POTUS's opportunities to press the flesh, so the outpouring of interest and enthusiasm was genuine...
...though, may make it more possible on a wider regional level to get both Belgrade and Zagreb once again more involved in Bosnia and other countries of the region, in order to pull the whole region forward to political and economic reform and to separate the parties from the state. The nationalists see themselves as the only guarantee of survival, and they've turned their mini-states in Bosnia into party states staffed mostly by former communists and run like communist states. But that may take some rethinking of the Dayton framework. Dayton froze the situation in Bosnia, and while...