Word: mantras
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...statewide hand recount, and the constant and often eloquent calls to "count all the votes." He must hope we will remember those for their principle rather than their application, because neither was a request his lawyers ever bothered to make before a court. (By Monday's oral arguments, the mantra and its disconnect had even become a joke to Justice Souter. And to Boies...
...idea of storks delivering children, a notion I was never that vehement about but was certainly familiar with, exploded with the decidedly non-avian birth of my sister. As I learned the standard magic card tricks that would only excite wonder in sympathetic adults or gullible children, the familiar mantra that "it's just a trick, there is no magic" began to grow in credibility...
...thousands of absentee-ballot applications last October, none of the ballots should count. A similar suit was filed Friday against Martin County, another wealthy, predominantly Republican county. G.O.P. officials have belittled the charges as baseless attempts to throw out perfectly good votes, anathema to the "count every vote" mantra of the Gore camp. But the Bush team has sent two powerhouse attorneys to attack the sleeper case before it gobbles up the election...
...Bush p.r. mantra of "the votes have been counted and we've won every time" has been so successful that I imagine that many Americans are wondering what the Florida Supreme Court is on about...
...economy, stupid" is unlikely to be the mantra of any of the candidates in Israel's forthcoming election campaign. Barak is still desperate to cobble together an eleventh-hour peace agreement with Arafat to take to voters, although prospects for such a breakthrough are receding almost daily as new waves of violence wash away progress toward a cease-fire. Indeed, parallel with his election track, Barak is still pursuing the option of sharing power with Likud leader Ariel Sharon in a national unity government - a handy tactic for both men to postpone the challenge of the election's undisputed front...