Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago Kansas Republican Robert Dole, one of the point men in the Senate conservatives' anti-treaty assault, stirred up worries about the pacts' imprecise language on this and other issues...
Returning from New York, Carter reached Washington in time to see a Senate committee chew a few more morsels out of his energy program and add to his griefs over the Panama Canal treaties. Kansas Republican Robert Dole raised a modest storm by disclosing a confidential State Department cable quoting a Panamanian diplomat as saying that Panama could not "agree to the right of the U.S. to intervene" militarily after 1999. What's more, the diplomat vowed, U.S. warships could not "go to the head of the line" to transit the canal in case of an emergency. The cable...
...feet or dozed fitfully on cots provided by the Army and Air Force. "Barbaric," croaked rumpled, unshaven Minority Leader Howard Baker as he surveyed the blanket-littered hallways. "An outrage," seconded Majority Leader Robert Byrd. Over the ayes, nays and occasional snores of his bleary-eyed colleagues, Senator Robert Dole told of encountering a woman who had come to observe the all-night session. It was the best show in town, she explained: "The zoo was closed...
President Carter has struck to the root of one debilitating problem by proposing his "profamily, pro-work" welfare reform bill, which aims to get people off the dole and encourage them to work (TIME, Aug. 15). By offering cash grants to the so-called working poor, it encourages underclass fathers to stay in the home instead of leaving so that their families can collect welfare. The plan offers tax incentives for those who find jobs in the private sector instead of public service. For those who cannot, it proposes to create 1.4 million positions in training programs and in service...
Still more probes are under consideration. The Securities and Exchange Commission may begin an inquiry into NBG's affairs. Senate Republicans are at last showing some interest in Lance's troubles. They had been uncharacteristically silent, chiefly because they liked his moderate economic views. Now Senator Robert Dole and House Republican Conference Chairman John Anderson are urging Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff to reopen his Senate Government Affairs Committee's once-over-lightly hearing on Lance's loans. Without wait ing for that investigation to get under way, Anderson last week became the first major congressional figure...