Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arguments made time and again echoed anew; results that were foregone conclusions took arduous days to achieve. Complained Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole: "We already had this vote. We've been here. We were here in March." But however lost their cause, Senate opponents of the Reagan Administration's $100 million aid package for the contra forces in Nicaragua dug in and fought. They offered impassioned rhetoric and put forward more than a dozen amendments on matters ranging from the use of U.S. military trainers to funding for Nicaragua's closed opposition newspaper La Prensa. Nearly all of them were...
...establish himself as a real factor, though not a credible contender for the nomination. Kemp seems to have done about as well as Robertson, but that may have made him the big loser. In fact the real winners may have been those who did not run, such as Robert Dole, Paul Laxalt and Howard Baker...
...Kemp mailings touted the same candidates. For that matter, many of the delegates have not made up their own minds even unofficially. Says Detroit Attorney Gerald Rosen: "I've talked with so many delegates who have said, 'I'm for Robertson and Kemp' or 'I'm for Bush and Dole...
...only contender given an unfavorable rating in the exit polls; but the Wall Street Journal/NBC News tally gave him about as many delegates as Kemp, around 10%. Kemp spent $250,000 trying to establish himself as the prime challenger to Bush and signally failed to do so. Dole, by sitting out Michigan and concentrating on showing his mastery as Senate majority leader, has begun to emerge as Bush's most formidable opponent...
...presidential hopefuls are arriving. They gorge on catastrophe. There is everybody to blame and no one responsible. Babbitt, Biden, Dole, Baker, Kemp, Bradley, Hart. They come like pallbearers in dark suits and white shirts and furrowed brows. It is plain that Iowa, uniquely distressed this summer because of its rural character (i.e., farms linked to small towns), will be the bloody ground on which the 1988 presidential nominations will be shaped...