Word: dolefully
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...Oval Office and widens his net. He often invites Darman or Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady along to go over this point or that; sometimes he turns it into a working lunch. Bush is soon on the telephone shopping the options around to his "sources" on Capitol Hill: Senator Robert Dole on political matters, Ohio Congressman Willis Gradison on health care and economic matters, Tennessee Republican Don Sundquist on tax questions. Following the May Cabinet debates over which countries to name as unfair traders under the new "Super 301" section of the 1988 trade bill, Bush's consultations with key lawmakers...
Soon after the videotape was broadcast, minority leader Robert Dole took to the Senate floor to make an unusually harsh assessment of Israel's actions. He charged that Israel had "struck out alone, free-lancing," with no regard for the American hostages. Said Dole: "Perhaps a little more responsibility on the part of the Israelis would be refreshing...
...Perhaps a little more responsibility on behalfof the Israelis would be refreshing," said SenateGOP Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas). But Rep. CharlesSchumer (D-N.Y.) countered that blaming Israelwould be "turning the world on its head...
...House subcommittee, Bush recanted earlier sworn testimony in which he claimed that he barely knew the former HUD officials suspected of handing out federal housing contracts to well-connected Republicans. "I would guess it might be a while before he goes to Luxembourg," says Senate G.O.P. leader Robert Dole. "And then it might be just as a visitor." It may be that other Bush appointees will have to do their traveling as regular tourists...
...changed. Welfare does not require its recipients to go to school or acquire job training. Nor does it provide incentives for limiting the size of aid-dependant families. Welfare's structure, in fact, encourages people who cannot feed their current family to add more aiddependant children to the public dole...