Word: grandchildren
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...thanks to Dole. In a House-Senate conference during the summer of 1986, he was instrumental in securing victory for the "Gallo amendment," which allowed grandparents with the wherewithal to give each grandchild $2 million free from the generation-skipping tax. At the time the aged Gallos had 20 grandchildren between them. And Dole did not stop there. He fought against increases in excise taxes on wine, championed federal programs that promote American wine abroad and, in 1992, supported the Gallos' efforts to market as a version of champagne a bubbly wine that was vat produced, even though the real...
...Phillips, that hopeful future has already arrived. Two years after her stroke, she has little trouble keeping up with her eight grandchildren. "If I had been home alone, I'd probably have just gone to lie down," she says. "When I think about how things might have turned out, I realize how fortunate...
...when they were told that material wealth was the only thing that mattered, as in "the economy, stupid." But by Verse 43, Dole was putting money on the table himself. If necessary, this father will pay his children to be good. And if necessary, he will risk using his grandchildren's money...
...gave him a CD player, he said he couldn't wait to cue up some Johnny Mathis albums. Even in Washington, his neighborhood is a sound stage: he lives in the Watergate, spends Sundays going to church, appearing on talk shows and taking Elizabeth to brunch. He has no grandchildren to divert him and few hobbies beyond watching C-SPAN or old movies. He vacations in Florida at a condominium complex where he pals around with David Brinkley and Robert Strauss and Dwayne Andreas--men taking the same break from the same loop...
Ferrara is survived by his wife, five children and 11 grandchildren...