Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hour and a half later, though, VNS alerted the networks that some of its exit-poll and vote-count information was wrong, and the actual vote started showing a trend for Bush. (VNS declined to answer questions last week, but in a statement said the "small lead" its poll gave Gore was insufficient to call the race alone.) Around 10 p.m., the shamefaced networks declared Florida "too close to call...
...Lately, though, Dr. Seuss is getting out more - a lot more. Since Geisel's death at age 87 in 1991, his widow has taken control of an empire long considered a sleeping giant in the licensing realm, shaken it awake and issued strict marching orders. And oh, the places Seuss is going! Even as we speak, the Cat in the Hat is ushering children through an elaborate ride at Seuss Landing, the 110-acre theme park that opened last year at Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Fla. The great green spoilsport comes to life in Ron Howard...
...Dave Phillips (who had been pursuing the project for years), as well as producer John Davis ("Dr. Dolittle") director Tom Shadyac ("The Nutty Professor") and Nicholson (who had expressed interest). But Universal, which had already made a major investment in Seuss at its theme park, came out swinging. And though revenue would have to be shared, "it was [easy] to see the ancillary opportunities," says Universal Pictures chairman Stacey Snider. When the studio's pitch by Grazer and director Gary Ross ("Pleasantville") didn't fly, Grazer's producing partner, Ron Howard, was recruited to woo the widow...
...Valuations, earnings, growth rates - the old standbys are all there. Bad bottom-line outlooks on IBM, Disney and now, on Friday, Dell (the moment of silence on the trading floor was for Veterans Day, though, not the other Austin power...
...Lazio was running against an anti-anti-Clinton sentiment; in other words, though plenty of people in New York State were disgusted by the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky, at least as many had come away from the last six years equating Lazio's former boss (Newt Gingrich) with Satan incarnate. For pretty much every Clinton-fatigue vote that went to Lazio, at least one GOP-fatigue ballot went to Clinton. And Bill Clinton's wife picked up quite a few sympathy votes, as well - because while Hillary never showed a weepy face to the public, her anguish...