Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...package, which would raise $21 billion in its first year, was fashioned largely by Dole. Its biggest surprise was an attack on the "three-martini lunch," long decried by liberals as a subsidy for the rich. Over the objections of the hotel and restaurant lobby, the Senate voted to reduce by half the deduction allowed corporations for business-related meals and entertainment in town; a traveling businessman or woman would still be able to 5 deduct these expenses in full. This tax increase was added when a proposal to withhold a part of restausrant tips was defeated...
They are not laughing so much at Bob Dole these days. It is not because Capitol Hill's lip-with-a-quip has lost his sense of humor. His wit is as irrepressible as ever. As he deftly shaped and pushed through the Senate a loophole-closing tax bill last week, the Kansas Republican eased tense moments with one-liners, delivered with his usual boyish grin, a bob of the head and a self-deprecating chuckle. When Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island protested that he could not go along with Dole's key proposal to withhold...
...difference now is that Dole's colleagues take him more seriously. For some 20 years, through four terms as a Congressman and two as a Senator, Dole was a member of the minority party in his chamber. He often explained his wise cracking ways by saying, "A Republican has to have a sense of humor because there bite, so few of us." And where Dole's sallies often carried a partisan bite, his Democratic foes could laugh along because he carried no clout. But now Dole heads the Finance Committee, his party controls the Senate and even Dole...
...Dole concedes that he often used humor to wound rather than amuse. "I'm very competitive," he says. "And it's easy to move from competitive to combative." Dole's most acerbic period came after Gerald Ford chose him as running mate in 1976. "They needed somebody to go out in the brier patch," Dole recalls. The Kansan tore into the Democrats with a barbed zeal that turned off many wavering voters. In his televised debate with Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale, Dole's jokes did not fit the serious forum and his partisanship went...
When Ford and Dole lost the election, former President Richard Nixon warned Dole that "it's getting to be scapegoat time and you're going to be blamed." Dole admits that the defeat depressed and soured him for a time. By early 1978, however, he was able to joke about the episode at a Washington Gridiron Club dinner. "I'll never forget the Dole-Mondale debate," he said. "Three empty chairs got up and walked out. I was supposed to go for the jugular...