Word: doles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand Bush and Dole have an advantage because of their name recognition. But, I say, "there must be someone you know named Smith...
...CANDIDATE] Elizabeth Dole...
...More than ever, the Republicans look as if they have a bright star in the making with George W. Bush. "His numbers are extraordinary," says Dickerson. Without having held a single fund-raising event, the Texas governor attracted $7.6 million. Bush easily eclipsed all his other rivals, including Elizabeth Dole, the other big name in the GOP contest. Dole raised less than $1 million, suggesting she may be following a dangerous family tradition set by her husband in his failed presidential bid: a slow start. "She hasn't put anything in place quickly," says Dickerson. "She's only announcing...
...Dole actually brings some advantages to this issue. Husband Bob has been a strong voice in favor of military action, and she came out in support of the air strikes right away. In a speech in Phoenix, Ariz., on Friday, she was able to remind her audience that as a former Red Cross chief, she has been to Rwanda, been to Bosnia, knows what ethnic cleansing is all about. "I would not back down, and I would take no options off the table," she told TIME on Friday. "We should continue the air campaign and expand the list of targets...
Rowling, a single mother who wrote part of the first Harry book while on the dole, feels she has slid right down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. The daughter of middle-class parents near Bristol, she began writing secretly when she was six, and after university took a series of jobs, mainly as a teacher. But she never considered writing for children until one day in 1990, when "Harry just strolled into my head fully formed." That same year, however, her life fell apart. Her mother died of multiple sclerosis at 45, and Rowling was both burglarized and fired from...