Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others are less worried about the Pentagon's ability to cope. "The Commander in Chief thought it was all right," noted Robert Dole. Most major weapons systems, like the B-1B bomber, are too far into production to be cut significantly. "They have basically got the buildup already structured and will be able to carry on most of the existing programs," says Stephen Daggett of the Center for Defense Information, a liberal Washington group. Most likely to face elimination are those on the verge of making the transition from development to production. Among them: the Sergeant York battlefield air defense...
...tagon outlays next year beyond what is necessary to keep up with infla tion. Nothing else could squeak through the Republican-controlled Senate--and even so, the vote scheduled on Thursday was going to be breathtakingly close. The President finally said yes, and Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole quickly spread the word. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who had turned Reagan against accepting deep cuts in military spending many times before, phoned Lisbon to protest. Stories differed as to whether he got through to Reagan directly; in any case, he was too late. The President got on the transatlantic phone...
...Social Security recipients were to get their full COLAs, the Senators quickly decided, veterans and retired government employees should also be entitled to theirs. Again Dole introduced this further emasculation of deficit reduction, and it passed easily, 80 to 18. The net effect of restoring all COLAs was to wipe out a projected saving of $34 billion over three years...
...that Dole has paved the way for amendments to the package, nearly 80 may be offered. Republicans alone have 28 ready that would put some $60 billion back into the budget. Support is also growing for a minimum tax on corporations as a way to fund all of the restored budget items...
...Dole remained outwardly confident that after all the carnage, members will come to their senses and salvage the original package. But what he felt inwardly might have been inadvertently revealed when he predicted, "We'll put it back together, like Humpty Dumpty." All the King's men, of course, were unable to do that. Whether the President's could do any better remained in doubt...