Word: threefer
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...like Fanjul's. But to do nothing for the Everglades would have crippled his presidential ambitions in the crucial state of Florida. So instead of assessing cane growers like Fanjul, Dole struck a compromise to take $200 million from the general treasury for Everglades restoration and thus scored a threefer. Dole could still lay claim to caring about the Everglades, but his contributors could dodge the costs of the cleanup even as they continued to profit from the federal sugar program...
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