Word: doleful
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MORE STORIES Nation: Living in Bill's Shadow Notebook: 10 Questions for Bob Dole Science: Mission to Mars More Stories...
MORE STORIES Nation: Living in Bill's Shadow Notebook: 10 Questions for Bob Dole Science: Mission to Mars More Stories...
...supposed to go to the state's Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Foundation. The organization funds community, hospital and school programs to fight smoking, especially among kids - exactly what the tobacco money was supposed to being for. The foundation only spends interest from its fund, and it will still dole out $48 million from previous years' money to its programs over the next two years. But that's $21 million less than the settlement promised them...
...cultivating the leadership only, Bush was trying to create a wartime executive committee that could dictate its will to Congress. Where Clinton had, as a governing tool, courted conflict with Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and even Democrats, Bush thought charming the congressional leadership would yield better results. Like his father, Bush puts politicians into two breeds: on the one hand, "good men" (and women) who can get things done, and on the other hand, obstructionist poseurs. And good men can hail from either party. It's why Bush gives out his highest praise to liberal archenemy Ted Kennedy...
...Defense lawyers rose to Brinkema's defense when former Sen. Robert Dole, during his 1996 presidential campaign, labeled Brinkema and several other federal judges "soft on crime" at a time when Republicans were attacking individual judges for rulings they felt were too lenient. Dole focused on a case in which Brinkema reduced the sentence of a man she convicted for plotting to kill a former martial arts instructor. She rejected his insanity defense, but cited his diminished mental capacity in sentencing him to 21 months in prison rather than up to 9 years. The appeals court overturned the sentence...