Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prominent administrative source said at the time that he believed the decision was "the only graceful way out" of the controversy. Harvard would dole out the honorary doctorates to no one and avoid an embarrassing protest to disrupt the party, he said...
...shortly before 4 p.m. last Wednesday, White House Courier Tim Saunders suddenly became the Invisible Man. Not that anyone actually failed to see him, or to guess what he was carrying in a manila envelope decorated with the White House seal. With Saunders in plain view, Majority Leader Robert Dole archly informed fellow Senators that Ronald Reagan had vetoed an attempt by Congress to block a sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, and * "somewhere there is a messenger who has that information." But the moment Saunders' presence was officially acknowledged, the veto would become the pending business of the Senate...
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., said the measure is "viewed with alarm" in the Senate...
...arms in triumph. Joining hands in the committee room celebration was an unlikely combination of allies: Russell Long, the shrewd Louisiana Democrat who for 37 years in the Senate has played the fine print of the tax code like a fiddler at a fais-dodo; Majority Leader Robert Dole, who once argued that tax reform was a lower priority than deficit reduction but who now promises to push through the measure on the Senate floor next month; and Bill Bradley, the New Jersey Democrat who for five years has been building the case for reform. Lobbyists representing interests ranging from...
...obstacle to tax reform. A new factor in the equation, television, may also help. Although an army of lobbyists will be following the bill closely, so too will many average taxpayers. On June 2 the Senate will begin allowing debates to be televised for the first time. Majority Leader Dole, who hopes to establish himself as a presidential contender, intends to bring the tax bill up that day, "right after the prayer...