Word: basins
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Basin Street Records...
Imagine explaining to chinese farmers pushing oxen through wet rice terraces that in California rice is planted from airplanes. Or coming across an old man scrubbing syringes and needles in a basin for reuse in the local hospital. Or watching fireworks soaring over the beautiful gorges of the Yangtze on Chinese New Year and realizing the town will soon be submerged by the biggest dam in the world...
...temple with a giant sculpture of a reclining Buddha. The temple didn't have much in the way of meditative calm. Before the Buddha stood two pretty girls in cotton-candy dresses who for $1.20 posed for photos with their pet python. It was curled up miserably in a basin with its mouth taped shut. Next to them were two more girls with a peacock. Downstairs at the entrance, shops offered a narrow but highly popular selection of souvenirs: jade bracelets, packets of ginseng and hard-core pornographic VCDs...
...plenty of. The rubber strips that part for punched chads grew old and stiff over age, he told Gore questioner Stephen Zack. Some styluses were particularly apt to leave chad behind. Some people voted with the card on top of the machine, and only left dimples. Sometimes the chad basin filled up so high that punching through was futile. And Brace never missed an opportunity to tack a Gore talking point at the end of observations. The scanner misses votes, so all the votes in Maimi-Dade must be counted by hand, "the only way of absolutely knowing for sure...
...Miami-Dade manual recount, whatever the legal questions involved (that'll come later), and there was no evidence Sauls didn't see it. And when Beck had finished, and wiped the blood off his lips, Gore lawyer Zack made up some lost ground, bringing in a genuine Votomatic whose basin that was "filled to the brim with chad." The intuitive virtues of Brace's testimony were badly wounded, but they survived...