Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...being reasonably honest about the suspense. In what is now almost purely a numbers game, Gore has less than a week to find 930 votes (or more, depending on the absentee ballot challenges) in the piles of cardboard and chads sitting in the counting rooms of Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties. And on November 26, he's going to win or he's going to lose...
...Bush legal team, the war continues this week on several fronts. The military ballots: get them counted with a little generosity, and get the public hopping mad if they're not. They'll take the constitutional fairness of selective recounts to other, machine-counted voters back to the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta, and higher if they have to. And they'll make the case - to the people in the next five days, to the courts afterward - that a voter without sufficient voting "intent" to poke a hole, any hole at all, in a piece of cardboard didn't intend...
Europe has been talking for a decade about having its own umbrella military structure. This week, for the first time, it has committed to dates and force levels...
...turn to the U.S. on a purely European matter. It was at a summit held last summer, in the immediate wake of Kosovo, that they set their requirements as a force of 60,000 that can be sustained for a year in the field. And this week they announced that the different European countries had committed some 100,000 troops, from which that 60,000 could be selected...
...actor on the global political stage, it has to have some military might to back its positions with forces on the ground. Everybody thinks it's a great idea, but the proof will lie in the implementation. Still, what we've seen this week is a lot more meat than many people expected...