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Word: miscasting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...votes, Harris would surely declare Bush the winner--and Gore's options would evaporate. Bush would throw a victory party, and the calls for Gore to concede would grow deafening. New court challenges, like the one in Palm Beach over the butterfly ballot that led so many people to miscast their votes, would seem like spiteful attempts to delay the inevitable. Late last week, sources told TIME, Daley and Christopher quietly informed the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle, that if Gore couldn't win on the hand recounts, the campaign would fold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Prime-Time Battle | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...doesn't shock me that some of the retired Jews in Palm Beach may have miscast their votes. Although both of my grandmothers, who live just a few miles south of Palm Beach, know more about politics than any person with a job, they are stymied by technology. My maternal grandmother, Mama I, is so defiantly anti-VCR and cell phone that whenever she reaches her friend Roz's answering machine, she hangs up on it and says, "What does she need with that for? Like she's some big business executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chosen People Who Can't Choose | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...individual who has served as an Overseer and knows Sullivan personally told The Crimson in June, "She's marvelous... but I'm not sure she wouldn't be miscast. I'm not sure it's the right use for her extraordinary skills." This person suggested the United States Supreme Court as a more viable option...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Not Likely to Name Woman Next President | 9/26/2000 | See Source »

...warning from former KLA elements to NATO to back off, following the discovery of the arms caches. Now, Washington and its allies may be set to learn the hard way that while Kosovo had no shortage of bad guys and innocent victims, the "good guys" may have been miscast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why War-Crime Probe of KLA Spells Trouble | 6/21/2000 | See Source »

...person who has served as an Overseer and knows Sullivan personally says, "She's marvelous... but I'm not sure she wouldn't be miscast. I'm not sure it's the right use for her extraordinary skills...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Filling Rudenstine's Shoes | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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