Word: mate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elizabeth Dole is given much of the credit for her husband's transformation from a partisan hatchet man to a legislative power. Although he still has the sardonic wit that made him the acid-tongued heavy when he was Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976, his humor has lost its nasty edge. He has mellowed personally and become more moderate politically. His stock soared during the last session when, almost singlehanded, he shepherded through Congress $98.3 billion worth of tax hikes designed to offset the staggering federal deficit...
...leadership. He was the first Republican leader to publicly tangle with Vice-President Spiro Agnew. At a 1970 governors' conference in Idaho. McCall received national attention when he called a presentation by Agnew a "rotten, bigoted little speech," and questioned the choice of Agnew as President Nixon's running-mate...
...Government Department appoints Gen Curtis LeMay a tenured professor. In an interview, LeMay, George Wallace's 1968 running-mate, endorses the President's call for a surgical strike on Savannah...
...rules require the city to treat all qualifying live-in partners as if they were spouses. For instance, they will have the same visitation rights at local jails and hospitals, and city workers would get a day off to attend a mate's funeral. But what backers were most eager to win was low-cost ($50 a month) health benefits, which city employees will pay for at the same rate as they do for a husband or wife...
...frequently on the Soviet Ambassador's guest list and recalls how Andropov used to borrow the police force's gypsy band. With a clear tenor voice, Andropov would join in song fests. He was especially fond of a sentimental Hungarian ballad about a crane leaving its beloved mate to fly to foreign lands...