Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several candidates, including Vice President George Bush, Sen. Robert Dole (R.-Kas.), and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis have joined with President Reagan in favoring use of the line item veto to reduce the deficit. Bush has even included the item veto in one of his campaign commercials, saying that "Congress is against the line item veto. That means it's probably a pretty good idea...
With Sen. Robert Dole (R-Ka.) and former television evangelist Pat Robertson finishing first and second, respectively, in the Republican race, the experts agreed that the Vice President needs a powerful showing in New Hampshire to keep up with his opponents...
...while Bush's performance may have been poor, most agreed that Dole and Robertson garnered strong support mainly because the Iowa caucus was just that--held in Iowa and in the form of a caucus, instead of a primary vote. Richard Thornburgh, Institute of Politics director and former Pennsylvania Governor, said that Dole's victory may have been more representative of his Midwestern support than his national appeal...
...admirable ability to endure adversity. Babbitt, for example, is almost a model of humor and grace in the face of an indifferent electorate. And Simon survived a rocky start-up phase in mid-1987 when his campaign was derided as little more than an ego trip to nowhere. Like Dole, his initial campaign organization was a study in amateurish chaos, but Simon also belatedly displayed the grit necessary to move aside longtime friends in favor of political professionals...
Perhaps the most terrible of all these terrible stories is that of Holly Peters, 24, who was raised in foster homes and worked for a time as a waitress, got married, went broke, lived on the dole. She was so run-down when her son Benjamin was born that he weighed only 4 1/2 lbs.; he survived in an oxygen tent, receiving blood injections. During that hospital stay, he contracted a viral infection that left him partly blind, deaf, hydrocephalic, brain damaged. After three months, the hospital released him and told Holly to give him phenobarbital when he had seizures...