Word: third
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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UMass drubbed Harvard for the third time this year at Northerns, 12-2. Harvard scored the first and last goals but the Minutemen dominated in between. UMass controlled the game's outcome with a vacillating pace that they're generally better suited...
TIME.com: People sometimes jokingly compare Miami's local politics to the Third World, but when reports surface about lost ballot boxes turning up in nursery schools, that no longer seems so funny...
...most counties they were on a single ballot form. But in Palm Beach, where a lot of elderly people reside, officials decided to use larger type and spread the candidates over two sheets. And the unorthodox configuration placed the Gore punch hole near Buchanan's - Gore's hole is third but his name is second from the left hand side, opposite Buchanan's punch hole. And Democratic officials believe this created a confusion that saw Buchanan get a number of Gore votes. But it remains to be seen whether their lawyers will be able to make a strong enough case...
...spoiler, capturing votes in states critical to Gore. While the fiercely independent candidate fell short of collecting the 5 percent of the popular vote required to ensure federal matching funds for the Green party in 2004, Nader was euphoric early Wednesday morning. "The Green party has emerged as the third largest party in America, the fastest-growing party and the best party to take back the government for the people," he told supporters in Washington...
...what of the two-party system itself? Has this Election Day circus of mathematical freaks birthed a day of reckoning for our two-headed system? (The founders, by the way, hated the idea of political parties.) The 2004 race is now primed to open its arms to a credible third party, and Democrats and Republicans will now find the capture of unclaimed centrists not just a strategy but something closer to a life-or-death struggle...