Word: daylight
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Davis argues that he inherited the problem from the botched 1995 deregulation plan. "People said, 'Why didn't you act sooner?' It's because, like a runner looking for daylight, I was waiting to see how I could solve this problem." Since December, Davis, renowned as a micromanager, has been working 18-hour days trying to find solutions to what he delicately calls the "energy challenge." His main fear is that he will be forced to raise rates--in effect, charge consumers full price--something no politician wants to do. "I'm not raising rates; forget it," he says...
...book about his boyhood, "An Hour Before Daylight," Jimmy Carter describes the close friendships that he had with black children when growing up in south Georgia...
...after a cacophonous United States Supreme Court eked out an epitaph for Gore, that Florida law gave Gore neither the time nor the infrastructure for a statewide hand count that met the constitutional requirements of a statewide presidential election, some of his lawyers still saw daylight. The 12th was a false deadline, and since the Rehnquist Five had in the name of judicial propriety returned the case for retooling, there was still a chance for a Hail Mary back in Tallahassee...
...sooner had Gore won the right to a recount than the Republican counteroffensive began--even though many states, including Texas, consider hand counts to be reliable. The judges who endorsed the recounts were denounced as biased; the exhausted counters were accused of attempting an in-broad-daylight theft of the presidency--even though Palm Beach County turned up far fewer extra Gore votes than anyone expected because of their stricter rules about counting dimpled ballots. Democrats were also stunned by Nassau County, a G.O.P. stronghold, which decided on Friday to use its initial election-night vote count rather than...
...daylight in upon magic, as Bagehot said of the monarchy. The post-election has scrambled the dynamic. A ritual transfer of power should go this way: We fight through a messy, noisy campaign, we line up in an orderly fashion to choose one candidate or the other, and then we reconcile ourselves to the choice and feel relief that we can forget about it. Now there is no relief. The mess that should have ended has followed us in to Thanksgiving dinner, and may be threatening Christmas...