Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Craig said Senate sub-committee hearings on the bill will be held April 16 and 25, but predicted the bill will not reach the Senate floor before this fall because of expected opposition from Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), an ardent Reagan supporter...
...simplification plan angers Iacocca: he shouts about the provision that would abolish the tax preferences enjoyed by industry--like automobiles. "I don't see any broke-ass McDonald's out there. I don't see anybody (in services) shutting down jobs so fast you're throwing them on the dole...
...Mexico will thus join New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan and Missouri in mandating the use of seat belts, and at least 30 other states are considering a similar move. The rush toward seat-belt legislation stems from a regulation issued last year by U.S. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole. She decreed that by 1990 all new cars must be equipped with so-called passive restraints, either protective air bags or seat belts that wrap automatically around riders. But Dole said that the regulation would be rescinded if states representing two-thirds of the U.S. population pass mandatory seat-belt laws...
Auto companies, which oppose air bags because they cost about $800, are lobbying furiously to promote the seat-belt legislation. Insurance firms, though, say air bags save lives, and have sued the Transportation Department in federal court. Their argument: Dole cannot delegate the setting of national auto-safety regulations to the states...
Some of Reagan's own Cabinet officers have quietly urged business acquaintances to turn up the heat on the President. Reagan friends have suggested a Camp David summit on the deficits, with Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. The President smiles and waits...