Word: harbouring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before Her Majesty starts acting on this idea, we should earnestly advise her to pause and think. Maybe if she exercised each morning at the Chelsea Harbour Club, Her Majesty would rate higher in the popularity polls--but I somehow doubt it. Maybe if the Queen came on telly to say how difficult she had found married life with Prince Philip, she would win many admirers, but again, I rather doubt it. Maybe if she had an affair with an army captain, and then a rugby footballer, and then the son of an Arab shopkeeper, and if she spent...
...missive--and a huge contribution to the Democrats--was a half-page kiss-off. That's a very bad ratio of quid to quo. If Bob Dole had been so cavalier about Dwayne Andreas' interest in ethanol subsidies, Andreas might have charged Dole full market price for that Bal Harbour condo...
...thinks of the U.S. as a constant, a fixed polar star of unchanged and unchanging values, like duty, honor, country, God. And he is proud of being much the same way. The places he knows best and loves most are not in flux; certainly not Russell, Kansas, not Bal Harbour, Florida, or even the U.S. Senate, where spittoons can still be spied...
...plea bargain was a public humiliation for Dwayne Andreas, a political insider who has funneled millions in corporate contributions to Republican and Democratic candidates. Andreas has particularly close ties to Bob Dole, who has used ADM corporate planes for campaign trips and vacationed with Andreas in Bal Harbour, Florida; Dole and his wife Elizabeth purchased an apartment there from Andreas. Dole has championed myriad agricultural subsidies that have benefited ADM. With Dole's support, Washington has paid out more than $6 billion in subsidies since 1980 for ethanol, the corn-based fuel that ADM makes; it holds a 65% share...
...first date--it's the one people remember. That's why the preparation for it is so intense. The White House suggested that Bill Clinton was "cramming" for his first encounter with Bob Dole. The challenger, for his part, spent most of the week at his condo in Bal Harbour, Florida, reading briefing books and scanning the cloudy skies for beneficial rays. (On Friday he gave up and opted for a sun lamp...