Word: hijack
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...lawyers have lost me. Are they here to rescue the process, or to hijack...
...said Al Gore's lieutenant Ron Klain, "but there's no one in this country who believes the election is over before the votes are counted." But Republicans disagreed. "The American people's tolerance is about to vanish," said Representative J. C. Watts Jr. "The Democrats keep trying to hijack the result, but Governor Bush is still the winner. I hope Al Gore will have the integrity to put the country first and lose graciously...
...coach talked bipartisanship but didn't establish his own game plan. Suspicions persist that Hastert is a proxy for conservative Republican power brokers Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, both of whom were too nuclear to be elected Speaker following the impeachment debacle. Indeed, DeLay appeared to sweep in and hijack the budget negotiations two weeks ago. But Hastert gruffly dismisses such talk, and last week he was acting very much like a man in charge. While partisans burned with each Florida ballot count, Hastert quietly phoned Democratic whip David Bonior and laid the groundwork for what he hopes will...
...Slade: I would hate to see that happen. But if the votes are still tied up in courts, it's just another way of the Democrats trying to hijack this election. But I suppose even if they did vote without Florida's electors, it wouldn't be the end of the world. It wouldn't be the best beginning of a presidency either - but it would be a beginning...
...Monthly fee for a ship to be monitored by a satellite tracking system in case of piracy attack or hijack...