Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offer some extra protection to the beleaguered American farmer. Last week President Reagan authorized the sale of Government-subsidized wheat to the Soviet Union. The Soviets have been buying little of the costly American grain, but the federal subsidies will bring the price down. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas, along with several Midwestern Republican Senators who are up for re-election this year, had lobbied the President to take the action...
...first time since 1959, except for occasions when dockworkers were on strike. May's farm deficit was $348.7 million. Although the USDA predicts a $7.5 billion agricultural-trade surplus for the year as a whole, the historic one-month deficit outraged farm-state legislators. Said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas: "Something is radically wrong when the greatest food producer in the world is buying more agricultural commodities than it is selling. This trend simply cannot continue...
...role of Congress in choosing Supreme Court Justices. Is the Senate's job merely to say whether a President's choice has the intellectual qualifications and experience to sit on the federal bench? If so, Scalia and Rehnquist are above reproach. Both men, declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole last week, have "the experience, the background, the integrity, the intelligence and the right stuff...
...fairness as they preened for the folks back home. With public sentiment already riled by the influence-peddling scandal surrounding former White House Aide Michael Deaver, it was an inopportune time for lawmakers to appear beholden to lobbyists on the evening news. As Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole dryly warned his colleagues last week, "I wouldn't want to be offering any tax breaks...
...Indeed, Dole predicted that tax reform was "unstoppable" and that Congress would have a tax-overhaul bill "on the President's desk by Labor Day." The Senate leaders are "trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy," noted Congressional Expert Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. Even so, most Hill watchers were betting that Dole's prediction would come true...