Word: supportive
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...answer for Miami-Dade County, and all of Florida, is for all ballots which show clear voter intent to be counted. Only then can the winner of Florida's electoral votes be decided with certainty. We have suffered for Bush's miscalculation not to support a full recount. Only when the correct decision of manually counting votes was made did the Bush team understand they had missed the opportunity to recount heavily Republican counties and took to protesting Gore's legal actions through a public-relations smear campaign...
...thing, it would require poor districts and rich ones to agree on what is affordable. "The states are rightly in charge," says Curtis Gans of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, a nonpartisan research group. But while Gans and other experts don't support a uniform nationwide voting method, they do favor measures such as design standards for all ballots. Ballots at every polling place could have a standard type size and style and be marked in the same spots for each office...
What he has been showing is his famous attraction to center stage. Amid the latest violence, Israel's opposition Shas Party gave Prime Minister Ehud Barak a one-month "umbrella" of political support, a temporary reprieve from domestic political pressure. But next week that umbrella is set to close, and Barak must figure out how to hold his government together. He has two choices: cut a deal with the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party or swallow hard and hold hands with Sharon. It will very probably be Sharon's last bid for power--the final attempt of a legendary general...
Your report on Hugo Chavez Frias, President of Venezuela and host of the 40th anniversary summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries [BUSINESS, Oct. 9], served to support my view that developed countries should desist from blaming OPEC for economic problems that may result from rising oil prices. OPEC countries are entitled to use their natural resources to develop economically. They do not need Western countries dictating how much they want to pay for a barrel of oil. If the Western countries cannot afford to buy oil from OPEC because of the high prices, then they can do themselves...
...night, Gore got in at 8:55 and out in time for Americans' precious 9 o'clock shows. But the import of his address - an address suspiciously bereft of comforting spin nuggets like "days not weeks" - was one that he'll have to fight this week and longer to support...