Word: dents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Democrats counter that the Palm Beach equipment made it particularly hard to punch through the presidential column and that any dent clearly shows intent. At a hearing on Friday, they brought in a developer of the system and others to testify on why it was harder to punch holes in the presidential column. Gore has said that if he loses partly because these dimpled chads were not counted, he will make it part of his suit contesting the election...
...Beck walked Ahmann through a litany of questions, trying to establish the relative delicacy of the ballot. Ahmann admitted that even normal handling can dent, dislodge or dimple parts of the ballot, let alone the vigorous handling inherent in repeated hand counts. You see, Beck seemed to be saying, if even the expert here believes there are marks on the ballots that are in absolutely no way related to voter intent, how can we ask non-experts to differentiate inadvertent marks from intended marks...
...Maybe. Because this aggressive, newspaper-reading, activist court was in fact rather discreet about the one factor that according to the numbers will pick the winner: the dimples. Oh, they hinted at it, calling "voter intent" to be paramount and citing an Illinois Supreme Court case that read a dent like a vote. But these seven Democrats were obviously a little worried what history might think of their politics. So they passed a little bit of the buck...
...Harvard received a power play when Weiland was called for a penalty. With the Crimson firing a barrage of shots in an attempt to dent the scoreboard, MacMillan came up big between the pipes, stopping every single one of them...
...discerning eye than most. A rich businessman on a field trip for erotic adventure, he stops at her counter to buy a pair of gloves, and--a nice touch--sends them to her. Thus begins a courtship defined by emotional compromise, misunderstood signals and the sort of betrayals that dent relationships but do not, in the real world, end them. Because, for a lonely person, something is better than nothing. "Mirabelle needs a companion," says Martin, "someone to talk to. I think that happens in life too. People get together, even if it's not right, to have someone...