Word: cordially
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What if the 2000 presidential election had hinged not on a diverse, messy, weird and slightly creepy hick state like Florida but on the most organized, practical and cordial one in the Union: Minnesota? What if, instead of going to court after court over hanging chads and butterfly ballots and whether a recount should happen, election officials had just calmly looked at each ballot and tried to figure out what the voter wanted...
...shaky-handed elderly, the movement-limited disabled, the instruction-confused immigrants, the first-time-voting minorities. But despite this tension, the two law teams have been pleasant toward each other. Franken lead attorney Marc Elias, who was head counsel for the John Kerry campaign, says, "It's been cordial. I've met Coleman's lawyer, Mr. Knaak, three times. He seems like a nice fellow." In fact, each side independently has taken back hundreds of ballot challenges it made during the review process that were frivolous...
...Clinton and Obama have spoken by telephone several times since Obama sewed up the Democratic nomination. They also had one previous meeting - it was cordial - in Clinton's Harlem office. But this was the first joint public appearance for two politicians who are routinely called the greatest of their generation...
...precarious than that of the invaders below. Over the centuries, Constantinople faced attacks from Goths, Persians, Bulgars, Russians, Papal crusaders and Arabs - and from the Turks, who eventually overran the city after the brutal siege of 1453. And while its people were experts at using soft power - Constantinople managed cordial relations with Muslim neighbors throughout most of its history - they also knew the terror of being a target. It was the price, familiar to many in the post-9/11 world, of living in a wealthy metropolis...
...speech to the IMF this month, Economics Minister Mehmet Simsek gave no hint about when - or if - a new deal will be struck, although he vowed that "fiscal discipline remains the cornerstone of our economic program." In the meantime, relations between Erdogan and the business community, never overtly cordial at the best of times, have turned nasty. This month, after the head of the leading business lobby, the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TÜSIAD), criticized the government for not being sufficiently proactive in the current crisis, Erdogan shot back, accusing her and other critics of talking...