Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pick up etc.-- maybe it's just that everything's a lot cooler in the eighth grade. After making the rounds we'd head down Boylston St. to Carey Cage. By 11 a.m. there would be about 40 kids gathered around waiting for the guy to come out and dole out the concession jobs. (It was a lot like the dockside scene from On the Waterfront.) There was a real hierarchy, in the concession business, with the game programs the executive jobs, popcorn your basic white collar affair, and pennants serving as the low man on the totem pole...
...needs the money, the entire process is painful and humiliating. At the same time, Welfare is a much larger world, where characters are not simply opaque subjects, but fleshed out individuals. Their own lives become a part of an experience much broader than just joblessness or being on the dole. The camera catches a sallow man from the side, his face deeply pocked. On the other side of his profile a woman with an oval face and a lopeyed gaze explains her situation in a Bronx accent: "My father I don't know since I'm six years...
...inflation. We are taking specific measures to diminish the impact of unemployment, particularly as regards juveniles and school leavers, and should be shortly announcing special help in the form of employment subsidies in hard-hit areas to help employers to keep on labor who would otherwise be joining the dole queue. That will be cheaper, in fact, to the government than paying dole, as well as socially much more desirable...
Willful Men. The compromise was supported by some previous opponents of any dilution of the filibuster, notably Democrat Russell Long. Such conservative Republicans as Roman Hruska and Robert Dole also turned around. They apparently felt that if they refused to compromise, the liberals might muster enough votes to gain a complete victory. On the first critical vote testing support of the compromise, it prevailed, 73 to 21. The holdouts included Republicans William Brock, Howard Baker, Barry Goldwater, Strom Thurmond and John Tower, as well as Democrats John Stennis and Herman Talmadge. The final vote to approve the compromise...
...rising more than 7% a year, and the jobless rate would still hover around 7¾%. The figures jolted both parties. Senator Hubert Humphrey found it "unbelievable" that Ford could propose record deficits and not "put America back to work." Calling political prospects "pretty scary," G.O.P. Senator Robert Dole, who barely won re-election in Kansas last fall amid the general debacle for the G.O.P., commented wryly: "It may turn out that 1974 was the good year for a Republican to be on the ballot...