Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Saturday, by a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the stay George W. Bush had asked for 18 hours before, putting a halt to a rickety process of sorting and counting some 44,000 undervotes just as it was getting under way. Hearings have been scheduled for Monday morning at 11 (briefs were handed over Sunday at 4 p.m.), and as always it is anybody's guess in this unprecedented non-election what exactly the Court has on its mind. But for now, here are some clues as to what they are thinking...
...hundreds of paid G.O.P. crusaders who descended on South Florida last Wednesday to protest the state's recounts. "The system is unfair, inaccurate, fraught with human error!" Strayer cried. In a Winnebago outside, G.O.P. operatives orchestrated the ranks up to the 19th floor, hoping to halt the tally of the largest potential lode of Gore votes...
...William Mahone of Virginia, by dangling before him the Agriculture Committee chairmanship and the power to pick the Senate's Sergeant at Arms. Republican Vice President Chester A. Arthur cast the tie-breaking vote so the G.O.P. could take over the chamber. But legislative business quickly ground to a halt when angry Democrats refused to show up for any floor votes...
Slow doesn't even begin to describe the beginning of the game, which ground to a halt faster than Robert Downey Jr.'s career. The two teams shouldn't have even bothered with the first five minutes of the game; the score was tied 3-3 with 14:51 minutes to play in the first half...
...Bush files federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Miami to halt all hand counts. The argument: since there is no uniform standard governing hand counts, voters will be treated unequally, violating their equal protection rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution...