Word: doles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often heard that politicians make favorable deals for corporate supporters, but reading about specific actions by Bob Dole in your article "The Corporate Dole" brought home the realities of this egregious practice [NATION, Sept. 23]. The millions and billions of dollars these corporations save in taxes are coming out of our pockets; yet the politicians and of course the corporations claim that welfare and other social programs are responsible for our national woes. Why don't we hear more in the mainstream media about these atrocities? It might wake up a few more people so they would do something about...
...levying a new tax on the use of lavatories in ancient Rome, Emperor Vespasian smugly replied, "Money has no smell." In spite of the unpopularity of this measure, no one could possibly see an ethical conflict in the Emperor's edict. But the reported private favors of "The Corporate Dole" are of a different nature. Unless the Republicans can show in each of the reported cases that the public at large benefited from the privileges granted to private enterprise, these transactions look blatantly unethical, and the monies involved have a foul smell. When the Christian Coalition supports the party...
...Dole is so bent on exposing what he calls Clinton's "Me, too" practice of snatching his ideas that his campaign has been releasing a "Commander in Thief Watch." (It asks, "If you have no ideas of your own, why not steal someone else's?") But it seems that the plainspoken Kansan is not above a little political plagiarism himself...
...Last month the owners of the 1967 Motown hit Soul Man ordered the Dole campaign to stop playing its "I'm a Dole Man" version of the song at campaign rallies, citing a violation of copyright law "tantamount to theft...
...Dole borrowed Nike's "Just Do It" slogan in crafting his "Just Don't Do It" antidrug catchphrase. Nike just didn't get it. "We are a sports and fitness company," responded a company spokesman. "We're a bit uncomfortable about being brought into the political arena...