Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee has tinkered with the President's package, hoping to come up with a proposal that could win House approval. It is now virtually impossible for a tax-reform bill to pass the House and reach the Senate by Nov. 1, the deadline designated by Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. Thus Congress is not likely to tackle tax reform this year. It is doubtful that the lawmakers will take any action on such a controversial issue in 1986, an election year...
...Republicans plan to bring National Review Publisher William Rusher, Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanniford Dole, and Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) to speak on campus, according to club President Mark P. Lagon...
...Cabinet meetings, lack of preparation and indecisiveness. The Secretary's defenders praised her successes, like reducing Medicare cost inflation, and her efforts to protect the poor and elderly against budget cutters. Heckler will take up residence in Dublin early next year. Her departure leaves Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole as the lone woman Cabinet member...
...upstairs room. The local borough council plans to tear the place down. Alice wheedles bureaucrats, placates the police, steals substantial sums of money from her father's house and later from his place of business. Before long, the new lodging is neat and shipshape. Her comrades, busy using their dole allowances to take taxis to picket lines and protest demonstrations, seem to appreciate the availability of hot food and the absence of stench, but not without some dissension. Jasper, demanding cash that Alice does not have, lashes out: "While you play house and gardens, pouring money away on rubbish...
More pressing matters, such as the farm bill, the unfinished budget and trade problems, could push the tax plan even further to the side. When asked if the issues of trade and tax reform were like two trains passing in the night, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole replied, "Yes, and one isn't moving." If tax reform collapses this year, it may not be revived until after 1986. Congress is unlikely to take action on taxes in an election year...