Word: winner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would also cost $40,000 a day, be legally suspect and potentially disastrous politically. Federal law says the legislature can declare its own winner if the choice of the voters is not obvious "on the day prescribed by law." Many electoral experts interpret this to mean the state doesn't have the right to step in until Dec. 12, the deadline for Florida to choose its electors. If Feeney wants to intervene before then, he would have to argue that "the day prescribed by law" has already passed...
...west, to the Panhandle, where Republicans stayed home after being told by the networks that it was over, Gore had won. (If Jesse Jackson liked these people, he'd call them "those who were cruelly disenfranchised by the media.") And even the recount showed Mr. Bush the winner...
...every Rotary and Kiwanis that would have him. But Nixon had more ground to make up. He was defeated in the California race for Governor in 1962; an aura of redoubled loser clung to him like 5 o'clock shadow. It was early 1968 before he looked like a winner again...
...winner this time will run for re-election in 2004. Should the loser fear he won't be renominated for that race? George Bush is probably safe with the Republicans. Al Gore has the Hillary problem, which four years hence may be powerful...
...winner? Well, it's playing in the background right now, the smoky, seductive and timeless music Davis and his legendary sidemen--chiefly John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans--committed to tape in a studio on the east side of Manhattan 41 years ago. Kind of Blue is more than simply one of the best-selling jazz albums ever; it is also nothing less than the sound track to the lives of several generations of loners and romantics. There are people quoted in these books who remember the first time they heard the two-note signature riff of its first...