Word: doleful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Helms does bow out, Elizabeth Dole has been spreading the word in Washington and North Carolina that she'd be interested in running for his seat. A former cabinet secretary and president of the American Red Cross, Dole, 65, was reared in Salisbury, North Carolina and visits her mother there regularly. Bob Dole, former Senate Republican leader and 1996 presidential candidate, has told his wife he'd love to return to the Senate as a spouse...
...Liddy Dole ran a lousy campaign for president in 2000, but in North Carolina she'd be the candidate to beat. The Republicans who might challenge her in a primary are a motley collection of congressmen, wealthy unknowns, or candidates who've lost previous statewide elections. The Democrats have so far offered up only second-string candidates as well. Their three best hopes for taking the seat - former Gov. Jim Hunt, former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles, and Congressman Robert Etheridge - have all said they won't run. Democrats also don't believe they'd get much mileage...
...Democrats still run strong in key pockets around the state and have managed to get moderates elected, including John Edwards, North Carolina's other senator, who's often mentioned as a presidential candidate in 2004. And though the carpetbagger charge won't stick, Democrats believe the fact the Dole hasn't served on so much as a city council in North Carolina will resonate. "She's really never held an elective office," says Barbara K. Allen, who chairs the North Carolina Democratic Party. "You've got to be better than just being great...
...Republicans in Washington dearly hope Liddy Dole would have the charm to hold a seat they can't afford to lose. The GOP, of course, wants to take back the Senate, which it lost last May when Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords defected to the Democrats. But that may become an uphill battle: The numbers in the 2002 election seem to favor the Democrats putting some padding on their one-vote lead in the Senate. Twenty seats now held by Republicans are up for grabs, while the Democrats have only 14 seats at stake...
Peterman has targeted that niche since the mid-1960s, when he hung up his baseball glove after three years as a minor-league second baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He bounced from one sales-management job to another for employers such as General Foods and Dole. In 1984 he started a business that diagnosed the problems of sick house plants by mail and wangled his first bit of free publicity when he appeared on Good Morning America to promote it. That company soon wilted (Was there an omen there regarding free p.r.?), forcing him to look for something else...