Word: planked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hurricane Bertha, Dole wasn't done shattering windows and scattering debris. Within 48 hours, he started all over again, telling CBS News that he would, if elected, "probably" veto the ban. A day later, Dole issued long-awaited platform language on abortion that reaffirmed the party's strong antiabortion plank just a month after he promised to temper it. By Friday the irresolution on assault weapons looked less like a mistake and more like a pattern...
...Dobson's, whose Focus on the Family ministry reaches millions of the faithful every day on 2,000 radio stations, took Dole to task for moving his declaration of tolerance from the preamble of the party platform, where it would apply to a variety of issues, to the antiabortion plank. But just in case this micromovement was too tiny to register with women voters, Dole also took out after Bauer, head of the pro-life Family Research Council. "I don't know where these people come from, you know," said Dole in a local-TV interview in Kansas...
...gave him a lot of help on his Hollywood speech." By making the fight personal, Dole got everyone so caught up in skirmishing that most of the coverage missed the central fact that Dole hasn't changed his commitment to ban most abortions--or the actual party plank--one iota. That's the beauty of making a friend an enemy, however temporarily...
...have him believe. Three weeks ago, conservative organizer Howard Phillips courted Buchanan during a four-hour dinner to join his U.S. Taxpayers Party, and Buchanan seemed only slightly interested. But Buchanan aides are giving that option a much closer look since Dole began watering down the G.O.P.'s antiabortion plank. Phillips tells TIME he was contacted last week by a senior Buchanan aide who expressed concern that the Taxpayers Party was not trying to get on the ballot in Indiana, Georgia and Michigan, states important to an independent Buchanan run. So Phillips is raising money to get on those ballots...
...statewide poll ratings plunging to the mid 30s (a Wilson spokesman insists his boss's popularity is actually broader). At 62, Wilson is now looking toward 2000, as he demonstrated two weeks ago when, instead of supporting the Dole position, he repeated his opposition to the antiabortion plank in the party platform. Though Dole and Wilson (and their wives) were once close, the Senator now finds the Governor occasionally confusing. Wilson recently took Dole on a California trip that began at the gas chamber at California State Prison, San Quentin, and ended at Richard Nixon's grave. Dole aides...