Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Golden Rule is the one company best positioned to take advantage of this windfall--a fact that Dole was well aware of. In 1993 Dole touted the accounts on television the day after Golden Rule flew the Senator to meet with company chairman J. Patrick Rooney. Later Golden Rule executives gave $30,000 to Dole's pac. Golden Rule also gave the Republican National Committee more than $500,000 for the 1994 election cycle, in which the G.O.P. captured both the House and the Senate...
...join a high-level, bipartisan delegation assembled by Bill Clinton to attend the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister assassinated only hours earlier. Dole had barely known Rabin but viewed him as a soul mate nonetheless--a "no-nonsense kind of guy," he told me as we flew toward Washington--someone "who knew how to get things done." Those words, expressing Dole's highest compliment, were the very ones he was already using to distinguish himself from his Republican rivals, but more important, from Clinton. "I'm a doer, not a talker," Dole would say. "The President...
...Clinton made a hash of his first term by taking on too many issues and angering key constituencies, and by the time Hillary Clinton placed an emergency call to Morris late in the 1980 re-election campaign, it was too late. Clinton lost. Morris flew in to plot the comeback--Clinton apologizing for his mistakes, hacking at his opponents--that returned him to power. "It's very important for me to convey how deeply I care about this man, what an inspiration, even a guide he's been," says Morris. "He is the essence of my career...
...with President Clinton and secured his promise to add $10 million to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) research money; Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter of the Senate subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services offered to add $40 million more. Soon after, as the new a.p.a. chairman, he flew to Puerto Rico and helped raise $600,000 at a benefit. Last week he was host of the Paralympics in Atlanta. Next week he addresses the Democratic National Convention with a nonpartisan appeal for research support...
...determinedly, Reeves began to take control of his condition. His confidence began to grow. Dana remained tireless in her attention to him. Will cheered him up as he clamored over his father's chair. Matthew and Alexandra, his two children from a long relationship in England with Gae Exton, flew over to be with him, as did Exton. He grew close to his nurses, especially a man nicknamed Juice--"my beloved Juice"--who was devoted to him. Juice had a joyous nature and was exceptionally strong. "When he would grip me," says Reeve, "and I'd lean forward...