Word: punch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...weeks, both campaigns had suspected it could all come down to Ohio, a state no Republican has ever lost and still won the White House. More than two-thirds of precincts were using punch-card ballots, with their potentially hanging chads. So Democrats acquired 611 punch-card machines, some of them discarded from Florida and Michigan and others found on eBay, so volunteers could hold little seminars outside key precincts on how to vote correctly. Republicans dispatched vote counters to every county election board so they would give the campaign an early read about where Bush might be lagging. Back...
This could be a problem," said Hughes, watching the first debate from a black-curtained boiler room backstage. It was hardly the knockout punch the Bush team had hoped for. Instead, as the debate unfolded, Bush looked more and more ... well, undone. With each smirk and scowl and shake of his head, the President ratified every charge John Kerry had made about his stubbornness and inability to admit mistakes. He not only looked cranky but he sounded it, shearing off his answers, forgetting the more expansive and compelling explanations he routinely gave on the stump. As the squalls continued, Hughes...
...punch season comes to a close, the debate over whether Final Clubs are sexist institutions that should be condemned by the Harvard community emerges once again. However, focusing solely on the Clubs overlooks and oversimplifies the issue. The sad reality is that Final Clubs are only representative of a general attitude that exists at Harvard and throughout America. It is this attitude that is the real problem—not the Clubs themselves...
...knock dividends. They can punch up your portfolio's returns
They might be small, but this group packs punch...