Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...package by a vote of 53 to 47. While the raid did not alter any Senator's vote, it did quash attempts to expand upon House limits on how and when the money could be used. Although the margin was hardly the bipartisan mandate that Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said he had hoped for, it was a concrete boost for Reagan in his attempt to gain approval from the House when the matter is reconsidered on April 15. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called the action "a good, strong statement," adding that the vote would...
Republican leaders were delighted. "I think Ortega gave us a boost," chuckled Dole. During the debate that preceded the vote, Republicans pointed to the incursion to punctuate their concerns that the Sandinistas were bent on a bold expansionist course. "Blood is still flowing as we talk in the U.S. Senate," intoned Jesse Helms, the staunch North Carolina conservative. "It baffles me that we can even be debating 90-day delays (in the delivery of contra aid) when men striving to be free are being killed." Frank Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, warned that the raid "underscores the dangers that...
...Take my advice: there's money in muck." Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a young Pakistani on the dole in London, takes these words to heart as he aspires to the comfortable status of his assimilated (and sleazy) uncle and pursues his own commercial dream of "a laundrette the size of the Ritz." With the assistance of his gay lover, Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis), an ersatz National Front hoodlum, Omar dreams up "Powders," a designer cleaning service replete with neon signs and high-style furnishings--even a fish tank...
Been a long twilight for the good working-class people of Hadleyville, Pa. Detroit closed the car factory, and life is desperation on the dole. For bad times, big gambles: send slick-shaggy Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) to Tokyo so he can persuade a thriving Japanese automaker to establish a plant in his hometown. Then, when the do-it-our-way executives of Assan Motors demand that their American employees work harder for less money, have Hunt convince his pals, speciously, that there is a pot of gold at the end of the assembly line. Poor, distraught workers, when they...
...Senate, in which Republicans hold a 53-47 edge, Dole said, "I think there are enough votes [to win]. It's close." When pressed, he said, "I think we're close to having enough votes...