Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House but being heard at all. Nevertheless, he thought anybody talking to a President should be aware of any taping "as a matter of self-protection." Republican House Leader Gerald Ford said that he saw "nothing wrong with the practice." Quipped former Republican National Committee Chairman Robert Dole: "I'm glad I always nodded when talking to the President." A Nixon loyalist, former Presidential Aide William Safire, writing in the New York Times, said the President was setting "a terrible example" of eavesdropping by his "Monster With Total Recall...
...problem is deeper still. Another study, this one involving welfare recipients in Detroit, has concluded that the working poor are just as impoverished as those on the dole, and have little prospect of improving their lot through work. Poor working women, said the report, are in the worst condition of all, their wages and opportunities even more limited than...
Milwaukee Sir / It is devoutly to be hoped that the self-righteous members of the cadet honor committee will, as officers, maintain the same rigid standards for themselves-an honor system that has some meaning in their military careers. That includes extreme honesty in the efficiency reports they dole out to others whom they command, and precludes deals with medical officers who will determine their "disabilities" at retirement in order to qualify them for tax-free pensions...
Students of labor markets point to several reasons for the mismatch between discouraged job hunters and empty jobs. Low wages make some jobs (domestic work, light manufacturing) less attractive than the dole. Lack of good public transportation effectively prevents city workers from reaching suburban jobs. Many vocational schools have equipped students with outmoded skills. The heavy burden of employee fringe benefits and employer contributions to Social Security and unemployment-compensation funds prompts some big employers, like those in the auto industry, to work their labor forces overtime instead of hiring. The Nixon Administration has sharply reduced funds to hire ghetto...
GEORGE BUSH, 48, successor to Dole, is an attractive politician who was out of politics (as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.) when Watergate burst, but is hurt because he is party chairman now. He might recoup by returning to Texas to run for the governorship...