Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack Kemp and his supply-side optimism for reasons more tactical than spiritual. He may still not believe it will work, but he can believe it will help him win. Trent Lott, the Mississippian who replaced Dole as Senate majority leader, was shocked, although happily, saying, "I would'na bet 50' a week ago that it'd be going the way it's going...
...first. Dole even did a soft-shoe shuffle to the strains of Soul Man and smiled at his running mate, who was clapping along. The two seem to be working out a little vaudeville act--Dole the straight man, Kemp the comic pratfaller. When Dole said he'd bet all he had that they'd win Colorado, he added with a grin, "I won't bet all Jack has." Kemp bowed his head, as if penitent about having made some cash-giving speeches. Mostly, though, he's tapping a foot, pointing, craning his neck, pretending to throw a pass...
...Clinton is leading Bob Dole by 30 points, Governor William Weld snaps: "40." Asked how Dole can win California, a state that Clinton has courted, coddled and charmed non-stop, Governor Pete Wilson addresses Dole's low profile: "He ran for President before. Would you like to make a bet on how many people in this country know that? Or care?" What most people know about Bob Dole, says Wilson, is that "he's been in Washington for many years. That's not a winning platform." Says TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante: "Sounds like Wilson is thinking about...
...answers, to all of the above questions, are as follows: Yes. Yes. And you bet your Mastercard or Visa...
This is, of course, a much more equitable system of paying, just as it might be more equitable if those older citizens who happen to be millionaires aren't having their Social Security provided by young couples who can barely support themselves. In both cases, though, I'd bet that the people who seem to be getting a free ride would prefer to keep things the way they...