Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vice President George Bush has survived the Iran-contra hearings. Senator Bob Dole has yet to make his big breakthrough. Congressman Jack Kemp is still scrambling for daylight on the far right of the field. Among the Democrats, the race remains as wide open as a frontier town on a Saturday night. Senator Joseph Biden was supposed to speak to a new generation, but then so was new- formula Coke. Congressman Richard Gephardt tried to trade on protectionism, only to see that issue sink like the dollar. Governor Michael Dukakis made inroads by warbling about his "Massachusetts miracle," but that...
...later, Pete du Pont's ambitions are again being met with incredulity. Surely, when the former Republican Governor of Delaware called a press conference last September in the Hotel du Pont and announced that he was running for President, he had to be kidding. When even the urbane Robert Dole contrasts his plebeian Kansas roots with the preppie background of the front runner, George Bush, a du Pont of Delaware hasn't got a chance. What skeptics do not understand is that, in his own mind, Pete du Pont is a self-made man, one who rebelled against his family...
...Dole still carries the duties of Republican Senate minority leader while campaigning cheerfully every spare moment; to him politics has been vocation and avocation for decades. Governor Michael Dukakis divides his week, not quite so cheerfully, between the road and the Massachusetts statehouse. One Sunday night in Knoxville, Iowa, he wistfully told two dozen citizens how Sunday used to be his sacrosanct family day. But there he was at yet another coffee hour, fresh from a debate in which his record had been attacked, and he wondered if he might have some pecan pie with ice cream before the interrogation...
...characteristic charismatic cadences, triggered the most enthusiastic response. Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee, the only Southerner in the race, won a meaningless straw poll. Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt was rewarded with a standing ovation, and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis provoked the most curiosity. But it was Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas who got off the most telling line. Referring to the never ending quest of Southern Democrats to find the ideal moderate candidate, Dole observed, "The perfect candidate never runs. And when he does, there's always somebody to take issue with you if you step in the arena...
...which was more than 80% white and totaled 430,000 in 1950, has shrunk to 330,000, 65% black. Although thousands of hardworking black families remain, nearly a third of the residents depend on public assistance. In some neighborhoods more than three-quarters of the families are on the dole, many for the third or fourth generation. Newark has few rivals in percentage of substandard housing and, though only the 48th largest U.S. city, ranks fourth in incidence of murders. In many ways, Newark has never really recovered from the 1967 riots...