Word: doled
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...England propriety. His reluctance to wear his religious faith on his sleeve is part of this ethos, as is his formal, hortatory Sunday-sermon speaking style. A strong sense of honor comes with the territory, a discomfort with swagger and braggadocio. "I once was with Kerry watching Bob Dole on television," recalls David Wade, an aide who is usually found in Kerry's immediate proximity. "Someone was asking Dole about how he was wounded in World War II. Dole wouldn't do it. He said, 'You just don't talk about those things.'" Kerry, who was wounded three times...
...wealthy business people, including Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose family foundation is one of the world's biggest. In Europe, however, with the exception of Britain, corporate-giving traditions were wiped out by war, inflation and the growth of the welfare state, which left firms with little incentive to dole out funds. Fueled by high taxes, governments have carried the burden of social justice. If firms gave at all, they sponsored causes that might further their business or extend their marketing. That's changing, as governments squeeze their budgets and a new, less self-interested type of charity takes hold...
...should have done welfare reform before health care. As soon as I realized [Senate majority leader] Bob Dole wasn't going to do anything on health care, I should have told the American people the truth, abandoned it, and said we're going to do this after the '94 election, we've got to have a bipartisan solution. I hope that in my account here I have persuaded people that the blame for those two big decisions rests entirely with me, because I always thought Hillary and Ira Magaziner got a totally bum rap on this. Those were...
...they thought of as a neighbor. The Washington National Cathedral was filled with the world's power fraternity, including President George W. Bush and all the living former Presidents--Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Jerry Ford--and some who had tried but failed--Al Gore, Bob Dole, Walter Mondale. After the service, Reagan's casket was clamped to the floor in the back of a plane that is used as Air Force One, and he began his journey home with family, old friends and staff...
...most presidential campaigners had learned to follow that model, and the ones who hadn't, like Pat Buchanan, crashed and burned in their own rhetorical fires. Bob Dole used to proclaim himself "the most optimistic man in America." And Clinton was the Reagan of the liberals, always full of bright-faced hope for a new tomorrow. By comparison, Gingrich and his followers made conservatism look snide and angry and strenuous. They learned the phrases but never the genial delivery of the man who carried 49 states in 1984 without breaking a sweat...