Word: sticklers
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...Denver didn't officially celebrate on Dec. 31, 1999, because of Y2K fears, but will throw caution to the wind this year and stage a massive mall party. Mayor Wellington Webb has belatedly discovered the city was a stickler all along: it celebrated the start of the 20th century...
Goard, a Republican described as a stickler for the rules, said she didn't have enough workers to fill in missing ID numbers, as election officials in other counties were doing. But in a questionable display of judgment, she let two G.O.P. workers spend 10 days in her office writing in the numbers on some 2,000 forms. "All I did was provide these people with a chair in my outer office," Goard has said. "I would have allowed the Democrats to do the same thing." But the Democratic form didn't have the same flaw. And once the applications...
...still Al Gore's target. But wait - that one's moving again too. Republicans are accusing Democrats of playing stickler with overseas military personnel after playing sympathetic with old ladies in Palm Beach. Of 3,626 mail-in ballots received, 1,420 have been rejected because of issues with postmarks, signatures and other extra-booth variables. Can a ballot without a postmark be deemed on time? Will it be post offices, foreign and domestic, that pick our president...
...company on the whole is a stickler about checking ids," he said...
...watch out: Nathans is a stickler for rules--and for starting her workdays at the crack of dawn. Rule-breaking first-years often find themselves summoned to Nathan's Prescott Street office for 7 a.m. "meetings...