Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HILLARY CLINTON Makes Liddy Dole-like tour of Arkansas and then nixes all White House fund raisers...
Almost every senior Clinton aide at first opposed the plan, which was championed by Dick Morris. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and National Economic Council chief Laura Tyson were worried that it would unleash a tax-cutting war with Bob Dole and help mainly families of those who would go to college anyway. Lawrence Gladieux, an analyst at the College Board, agrees. "It is tax relief, but it's not effective in closing gaps in educational opportunity," he says. Sensitive to that charge, Clinton at the last minute tacked on a substantial increase in Pell grants, which pay college costs...
...comments in this article have been directed towards women. I was worried that I had somehow misattributed this fine-tuned criticism to gender issues, so I looked long and hard for men that were picked on about their appearance. However, even the harshest critique of President Clinton or Bob Dole in jogging shorts were nothing compared to the venom spit during the Hillary Clinton headband debate...
...their private talks, Lott has emphasized to Clinton that if they can join to make one tough decision on the CPI, they can avoid "a hundred tough decisions down the road." The pair already have an unlikely record of cooperation: last summer, shortly after Lott succeeded Bob Dole as Senate majority leader, he surprised both his G.O.P. colleagues and the White House by skillfully brokering deals to pass bills that, with Clinton's signature, reformed welfare, increased the minimum wage and made health insurance more portable for workers changing jobs. Those accomplishments helped ensure the re-election of both...
...opinion of the electorate is perceived as being so entrenched on this matter that Bob Dole did not even bother to seriously broach the character issue during the recent campaign. Polls have shown that people simply do not care about Whitewater, Travelgate or the misuse of FBI files. Most voters acknowledge Clinton's questionable ethical judgement but insist that his private peccadillos have no bearing on his ability to act as chief executive. Recent events prove otherwise...