Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dole's announcement is likely to disappoint career women who view her as a role model, and that bothers her. "It's not that you're giving up what you're doing," she offers. "It's that you're laying down one cause to take up another." For more than a year she had gently but stubbornly insisted that she could stay in public office and also campaign. When her husband rather tactlessly suggested last January that his wife would have to leave her job eventually, she sharply rebuked him. The Senator, who plans to announce his candidacy formally...
...husband scrupulously refrained from pressuring her, Mrs. Dole says, and his campaign staff members did their best not to sound too insistent. It was only around the time of her solitary walk that she fully realized how little time was left to decide. Once she saw the fall schedule plans and realized how strong a demand there was for her, especially in her native South, the answer became painfully clear...
...primary states. (The Government and the campaign split the costs of the trips.) She disputes the figures: it was 18 days, not 21, and only 11 were weekdays. "I wonder too," she retorts, "is there a difference between candidates retaining their jobs in Government and a spouse?" Dole doesn't single out the Vice President by name, nor does she use the harsh-sounding term double standard. But she implies it with a disarming smile...
...defending her department's record. The Harvard-trained lawyer methodically prepares her material and is deft at marshaling facts. But she can be wounded by a stray remark. When told that a Democratic political consultant had joked, "At least no one can say she quit while she was ahead," Dole grew silent, wide-eyed and quietly hurt. "She takes her job very seriously," notes Robert Ellsworth, a longtime friend and her husband's campaign chairman. "It's very important...
...Dole put her husband's career ahead of her own once before, when she resigned as a member of the Federal Trade Commission to help his ill-fated 1980 presidential campaign. Until then the former Duke University student- council president and campus Queen of the May from Salisbury, N.C., had concentrated single-mindedly on her work. She started in politics as a "greeter" on Lyndon Johnson's 1960 vice-presidential whistle-stop tour, where she became enamored of Washington. She eventually started working there, quickly racking up high-ranking posts in Administrations of both parties. Her soft, unthreatening style...