Word: concessioner
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The Supreme Court had made its decision the night before, and on Dec. 13 Laura Bush's husband would claim the presidency. But for weeks another meeting had been scheduled at the Governor's mansion for that same Wednesday night. It was to be the final report on this year...
You think our guys tried every trick in the book to win the presidency? Think again. The post-ballot maneuverings of Al Gore and George W. Bush were nothing compared to what Slobodan Milosevic tried in Yugoslavia when, to his astonishment, an election went against him. On Sept. 24 Vojislav...
But Case and Levin wouldn't budge when the FTC demanded the right to regulate the placement of AOL Time Warner content, fearing they would lose control of their own products. It was a make-or-break issue. In their 11th-hour concession, signed off on at 5:30 last...
You might think they were in the same room. But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his Palestinian counterpart actually sat for TIME in Jerusalem and Gaza City, respectively. Two men, just a few miles away, in fact separated by light-years of misunderstandings. So it was this summer when...
Al Gore's concession speech was not as good as the reviews would have it. Quoting his father about how defeat shakes the soul was the right touch of poignancy. Saying he would be mending fences in Tennessee admitted how much it hurt to be rebuffed at home. Invoking the...