Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CAMPAIGN TRAIL BOB DOLE depicts himself as the only man who can save the Grand Old Party from the divisive populism of Pat Buchanan. But Republican elders and lawmakers fear that Dole, the Senate leader and master tactician, is leaving them vulnerable back in Washington, where they stand to lose control of Congress if they don't post some legislative accomplishments--and fast...
...Senator's personal appearances weren't helping. As much as Dole probably hates the phrase, if only because of who coined it, it applies to watching him on the campaign trail: you feel his pain. He showed up Tuesday morning for what was to be a triumphant victory speech before the state legislature; these were his people, the sheep of his pasture, and if he ever hoped for an inspiring moment, this was as good a chance as any. But all night his staff had fought over what he should say. The first draft, largely written by Mari Maseng Will...
...PEOPLE TEND TO PICK straightforward names for their pets, as with Gus, the slobbery Labrador who has been barking at former presidential candidate Phil Gramm for staying too long on the campaign trail. Lamar Alexander, though, is a cat person, and when his family acquired two new kittens last year, he dubbed them Kato and Ito, a hopeful play on the potential of fame. For the past year, as Alexander struggled to win the attention of Republican-primary voters, he would flash his chin-up smile and explain that he was "encouraged by the experience of Kato Kaelin that...
...paper trail police did manage to uncover points clearly to Szekeres, according to Maloney...
...minimum wage, allowing it to fall to a forty-year low in buying power. He has tried to curtail the Earned Income Tax Credit, a way to ensure that no parent with children can work a 40-hour week while remaining mired in poverty. But now on the campaign trail, Dole is nice enough to point out that, "the real average hourly wage is five percent lower than it was a decade...