Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Colin Powell, at a stage when Dole not only wanted his active support but dreamed of having him on the ticket, strongly opposed the initiative and defended affirmative action...
Meanwhile, Pete Wilson's presidential campaign, in which affirmative action was a central issue, fizzled. And Dole's campaign, as it moved toward the nomination, moved away from the initiative. There seem to be three reasons...
...Prominent moderate Republicans, including former California Governor George Deukmejian, told Dole they thought the initiative was too divisive and too local to be a good presidential-campaign issue...
...main opposition to the initiative has come from women's groups. The Dole campaign, increasingly preoccupied with its "gender gap," didn't want to do anything to worsen...
...race has suspense as well. At the moment, Kerry is dead even with Weld in a traditionally Democratic state where Clinton leads Dole by more than 20 points. Kerry may have spent the past 12 years in the Senate, but he enjoys few of the advantages of incumbency. Instead, Weld is the candidate whose views and personality the voters know best. (They re-elected him in 1994 with 71% of the vote.) While Kerry is well regarded for chairing complex Senate subcommittee hearings on issues like drug trafficking in Central America and for leading the effort to track U.S. soldiers...