Word: golden
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...Chelsea or Al Gore '69. Bipartisanship--7 times His family and friends--7 times, including 3 references to Jack Kemp A FEW OF OUR FAVORITE QUOTES: "No comment." Called late brother "Kenny the Great Exaggerator," "a great talker...but you couldn't always believe him." Defined "liberal" as the "golden oldie" of past Republican presidential campaigns, adding: "I just don't think that dog will hunt this time." "Saddam Hussein is probably better off than four years ago." Quoting Jack Kemp as saying Dole never "met a tax he didn't hike. "Supports electronic gun control checks. If they register...
...GOLDEN RULER J. PATRICK ROONEY...
...almost always worked with Senator Nancy Kassebaum, especially to assist Kansas industries like wheat growers and small-airplane manufacturers. But Dole broke with his fellow Republican--and endangered the health-care legislation she left last month as her legacy--by looking after the interest of a Dole Inc. supporter, Golden Rule Insurance of Indianapolis. Golden Rule was pushing medical savings accounts, which allow people with high-deductible insurance plans to set up tax-favored savings accounts to use for their health-care expenses. Dole's amendment, which would have cost the Treasury $1.8 billion over seven years, was defeated...
...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...
Ever since her Aug. 25 dorm revelation and the couple's confessions to police, their admirers at the service academies and in the Fort Worth suburbs where they lived have been unable to believe that these two could be natural-born killers. Graham and Zamora, both 18, were a golden pair with outstanding academic and athletic records. They had grown serious since meeting four years ago, and planned to marry right after college. They beat the odds to win coveted places at the military academies, where they planned to study physics. Zamora dreamed of becoming an astronaut, and Graham longed...