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Ironically, it was Bob Dole who suggested last April that voters ask themselves which candidate they would most trust to care for their children. It was his attempt to cast himself as the responsible adult in the race. He never dreamed that the Clinton campaign had already decided to offer up a young, energetic President standing between their children and the abyss beyond...
...market was never as good as it looked for small investors, who invariably got locked out of the initial trading and were left to buy shares after prices jumped. Typically, Wall Street underwriters dole out new shares at the offering price only to big customers (unless you're a U.S. Senator). According to a recent study of 125 companies that went public in 1990, investors who bought in at the original price would have gained 77% on average if they held the stock for up to five years. By contrast, the University of Chicago business-school survey also found that...
...labor union boilerplate doctrine? Not necessarily. Critics like California Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi fear that American companies, in their quest for sales are handing China "our technology, our production and our genius, the very blueprints of our economy." President Clinton and Congress, with support from Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, are renewing China's most-favored-nation trade status. Yet, during his 1992 campaign Clinton pledged, "If other nations refuse to play by our trade rules, we'll play by theirs"--implying that he would retaliate against protectionism. Pressed to explain the gap between his rhetoric and his record...
MICHAEL DUFFY scores a small coup this week with a behind-the-scenes story from the presidential campaign. He describes how Bob Dole, pressured by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, missed a crucial opportunity to blunt one of the Democrats' favorite wedge issues, gun control, first dropping his plan to promise a repeal of the unpopular assault-weapons ban, then changing his mind again, but too late to reap the political reward. "I wanted to autopsy one moment in a very difficult time for Dole," says Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "You get the feeling he believes this campaign doesn...
HILLARY CLINTON VS. ELIZABETH DOLE...