Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...veto, the President sought to outflank Congress with his own initiatives on South Africa and international trade. His political maneuvering served only to heighten the partisan conflict on Capitol Hill. "This is no longer an issue of what's good for South Africa," declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. "It's a raw political issue. South Africa is secondary." As for new trade legislation, a top White House aide pointed an accusing finger at Congress. Said he: "Pure domestic political considerations have produced this protectionist rhetoric...
...Democrats tried three times to bring their own bill to a vote. Just before the second and climactic attempt, Dole reclaimed a few G.O.P. waverers with a dramatic pledge. "If there is any slippage, if there is any turning back on the part of the President," Dole said, then he would personally reintroduce the bill and support it. The call to bring the sanctions to a vote was defeated 57 to 41. But Cranston vowed to try to attach the measure to legislation that Reagan could not easily veto, like an upcoming bill that would raise the federal debt ceiling...
President Bok joined 19 other college and university presidents in urging the U.S. Senate to enact legislation that would impose strong sanctions on the South African government. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) and Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), the presidents wrote that the U.S. must punish South Africa for its refusal to dismantle its apartheid system by "sending an unequivocal message through the imposition of official sanctions...
...monetarist economists for the other Federal Reserve vacancy. Monetarists have long advocated steady money growth as a way of guarding against inflation. A leading contender in this camp is Wayne Angell, an economics professor at Ottawa University in Kansas. Angell, whose nomination has been urged by Kansas Senator Robert Dole, has a firsthand understanding of the credit crunch in the farm belt. He is a part-time farmer, and, together with his brother, owns a small bank in Pleasanton, Kans., and a second in Hume...
President Bok joined 19 other college and university presidents in urging the U.S. Senate to enact legislation that would impose strong sanctions on the South African government. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) and Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), the presidents wrote that the U.S. must punish South Africa for its refusal to dismantle its apartheid system by "sending an unequivocal message through the imposition of official sanctions...