Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picture-book Chautauqua, New York, for each of three evenings before the debate, Clinton held a mock session with smooth-talking former Senator George Mitchell, who played Dole. The main advice to Clinton: Don't let Dole drag you off the presidential pedestal, stay on your sunny message and don't bite your lip. Dole rehearsed in the first-floor ballroom of his condominium building, where the campaign set up a stage bathed in TV lights. Aides sat at a table to the side, using flashlights to signal when time was up. Playing Clinton was former actor and good...
...candidates draft the playbooks. Clinton signs a bill guaranteeing new mothers 48 hours in the hospital, one last chance to catch her breath, a last night's sleep, courtesy of the President of the United States. It's hard to find any money to put away for college, so Dole offers a deduction for student loans and a $500 tax credit per child. Mom can't be there screening what the kids watch on TV every minute, so here's a V chip. It is not the craft of politics, it's the art of coping...
Lori's mom Doris echoes what Dole tells women: they should work only if they want to, a 1950s notion that defies the economy of the 1990s. "If I had my choice, both of my daughters would stay home," says Doris. She reared her five children while her husband Ed worked for 27 years at Sears. But she realizes Lori has little choice, so she thought about what matters to her most, and then made a decision about her own life that makes all the difference in Lori...
...monthly house payment rose from $592 to $616, even though interest rates are falling; the answer was higher insurance fees and taxes. After that she socks away $150 every other month into a mutual fund, while trying to erase $14,000 in credit-card debt by next year. Bob Dole's 15% tax cut would help, but she doubts it will ever happen. "That's probably what I would say if I were running for President...
Lori doesn't know whom she's going to vote for, but she does know she has trouble even remembering that Bob Dole is in the race. "It's like he's not even there," she says. "I have to force him to enter my mind." She knows a little of his story, admires his gritty recovery from his war injury, but is worried that he might not live out his term. "I want someone more contemporary...