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...Wildlife Board and to ban two cruel methods of hunting and trapping animals. Question One, the only referendum question on this year's ballot, would change current law in three ways: It would abolish the requirement that five of the seven board seats go to hunters, ban steel jaw and padded leghold traps, and prohibit the use of dogs in hunting bears or bobcats, with some exceptions...
TOPICCLINTON DOLE BODY LANGUAGE: Smug, self-confident looks: 3 Disdainful snickers: 6. Deep breaths/squaring jaw: 6 Full-blown guffaws: 4. Anxiously awaiting time for rebuttal: 3 Notetaking: 3. Smirks signalling disagreement: 4, including one shake of the head. Almost wandered off stage: 1. Notetaking: 4 STOCK PHRASES: Brink of/bridge to the new/21st century: 7 times. AWOL: 2 References to American families: 8 times, though never mentioned his own. Using panelists' first names: 11 times, including 3 references to Jason. Medicare, Medicaid, environment, education: 7 times California, host state of the debate: At least 7 times. Dole's $550 billion...
...looks aren't everything. For decades paleontologists have chewed over the suggestion that T. rex's eyes were too small, its arms too short and its legs too slow for effective hunting. A few experts have gone so far as to say that despite the monster's huge jaws, its teeth were fragile and its jaw muscles were not strong enough to capture and kill other animals. Maybe the king of the dinosaurs was just a lowly scavenger...
...goes into a meeting," says Mari Will, a longtime associate and Bob Dole's former communications director, "she expects to be better prepared than anyone else there." Mrs. Dole holds others to the same exacting standard. If a staff member is lax, the unlucky individual gets the Look--set jaw, icy stare--and is frozen out. "It usually happens only once," says Will. And heaven forbid, don't call her Liddy--that's only for those who knew her when she was in pigtails. Lesley Stahl got the Look that chills when she made that fatal error on 60 Minutes...
...Elizabeth Dole, one of the occupational hazards of campaigning is the media. She doesn't seem to understand why journalists are not just stenographers. While on vacation in Florida, the Senator would take a moment to jaw with a group of reporters, while she would ostentatiously get inside the car and wait impatiently...