Word: bobbed
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...Bob Dole (R.-Kan.): The senator wasone of the original sponsors of a savings planbased on the Individual Retirement Account model.He has also advocated selective aid to collegesand universities to support their research, and,along the lines suggested in the FridayCommission's Report, says that the federalgovernment must further enlist universities tohelp restore American competitiveness. Although hesays he supports continued funding for the PellGrant progam and GSLs, he says they must betargeted to those who need them most...
...hijack crisis began with a rumor broadcast on CNN that top Bob Dole Advisers David Keene and Donald Devine had seized control of the chaotic campaign by taking over the candidate's plane. Campaign Chairman Bill Brock was vexed enough to fly from Washington in order to confront Keene, the apparent ringleader, in Orlando, near Disney World...
...Bob Dole, giving his theory of campaign scheduling during a recent appearance in . . . er . . . Where was it anyway? . . . Someplace near some airport in some primary state...
...South to prove he is a viable candidate. But George Bush maintains a commanding lead in the region, and a frustrated Robertson last week resorted to a series of outlandish remarks, including a suggestion that the Bush team had timed the Jimmy Swaggart scandal to embarrass the Robertson campaign. Bob Dole was buoyed by impressive triumphs in South Dakota (55% of the G.O.P. vote) and Minnesota (43%), but his disorganized campaign has still not caught fire in much of the South. His strongest champion in the South remains his wife Elizabeth, who was born in North Carolina and is working...
...bizarre arrest of Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon by the Senate's sergeant at arms and five Capitol police officers last week showed how emotional the presumably genteel senior body has grown over a furiously partisan election-year issue: a Democratic plan to reform campaign financing. Packwood's offense was to flee a quorum call. The raiders also came across Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker, who was waiting out the call in his office. But, cowed by Weicker's bulk (6 ft. 6 in., 235 lbs.), they backed off when he stoutly insisted on remaining on his couch...