Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning of 1985 and returns again this Saturday.Bush's political- action committee has raised some $400,000 in the state, $150,000 of which will be spent there; the Michigan Opportunity Society, which supports Kemp, will have raised and spent about $150,000 by May 27. Although Robert Dole and Howard Baker have pretty much shunned the fray, Television Evangelist Pat Robertson's Freedom Council, his educational charity, is busy recruiting potential precinct candidates...
...billion deficit ceiling set by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law. It was enough to drive the Senator, a reformed chain smoker, back to bumming cigarettes from the Capitol doorkeepers. Near the end of a week of feverish bargaining, Domenici stepped out of a conference with Majority Leader Bob Dole and was asked, "What do you think?" He replied, "I think this is a crazy place and I've got a terrible...
...Though Dole supported the resolution, he was not as pleased. He had held several meetings with Budget Director James Miller and top Senate Republicans to work out a package closer to Reagan's request. He conducted transpacific negotiations with Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who was traveling with the President in the Far East. At one point Dole waved a document he identified as a House budget proposal (it was actually a month-old working paper outlining one option). Declaring that the proposal recommended no major revenue increases, Dole called it a "smoking gun" because it proved that House Democrats...
...helped keep him on the hot seat. "I certainly think it's a mistake to go to the Saudis for help to firm up the price of oil," New York Congressman Jack Kemp told the Buffalo News. Asked for his comments on Bush's predicament, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole declared, "I don't believe in throwing an anchor to a drowning...
...head," and charged that Bush had emerged as a "traditional Republican Daddy Oilbucks." The flap made Bush look almost like a shill for oil producers (he is a former Texas oilman). Said David Keene, who helped run Bush's 1980 campaign and is now a consultant to Dole's political-action committee: "This is the most serious error he's made since becoming Vice President." At his press conference President Reagan tried to aid his Veep, insisting, "We're saying the same thing." Perhaps. But if so, the brouhaha only underscores how much more adept Ronald Reagan is than George...