Word: doleful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Constitution we're all in a dither over gives us two months to fix this. Bob Dole has joked that it's going to take a swat team to blast Clinton out of the Oval Office, so we don't need to be worried about whether he's going to give two weeks' notice. No fusion Cabinet, no bonding with members of the congressional opposition, will substitute for a genuine, authoritative result we can all live with, however unhappily. Only when we have that result will the winner have any hope of doing more than play-acting...
...look at the polls now and the differences are minimal, so I don't think a change is likely," he said. Pineiro brought up the fact that in 1996, former Senator Bob Dole did extremely well in the absentee ballots even though he wasn't carrying the whole state. Because Republicans often do well with these absentee ballots, he said, Bush should have no problem maintaining his lead...
...they are made over and over. This year the Republican Leadership Council rebroadcast the scathing attacks of Ralph Nader - no Bush lover - on Gore's environmental record; in 1980 the Reagan campaign aired the anti-Jimmy Carter fulminations of Ted Kennedy, friend to supply-siders everywhere. Bob Dole lifted a clip from the "Daisy" ad for a 1996 attack spot against Clinton. The Gore camp bashed Bush for pollution in Houston (substitute "Bush," "Dukakis" and "Boston Harbor," and you've got 1988) and tagged Bush as the failed governor of a Third World-like backwater (Bush, Clinton, Arkansas...
...Trust will have nearly $20,000 to dole out to student groups this year. Much of that money comes from a gift of $50,000 made this summer by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
...against Kemp, the mismatched running mate of Bob Dole, Gore faced a polished opponent, armed with charm, looks and football stories, and a Reaganesque ease that threatened to make Gore look unlikable. So Gore started with a gambit his daughter Karenna thought of: "I'd like to start by offering you a deal, Jack. If you won't use any football stories, I won't tell any of my warm and humorous stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement." In one stroke, Gore got in a semi-funny self-deprecating wonk joke and got Kemp off his game. Gore spends the rest...