Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President was called back to the podium to receive an outsize birthday card and a rousing round of Happy Birthday to You. Though Reagan got generally high marks for his effective delivery, many critics took him to task for the speech's content. Lamented Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, a Republican: "I wish he had spent more time on the deficit." Of course, Dole conceded, "when you have something that you're not proud of, you don't raise it as the centerpiece of your speech." Democratic House Speaker O'Neill jabbed harder still. With such an upbeat tone, Reagan...
...assessed 50 cents for every hundred pounds they marketed. Production dipped slightly, from 138.9 billion lbs. of milk in 1983 to 137.4 billion lbs. last year, but it is expected to turn up again when the diversion plan expires in April. "This program is so bad," quipped Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, "even the cows are laughing...
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole set off howls of protest last week when she announced that the winner of a lengthy bidding battle to buy 85% of Conrail is Norfolk Southern railroad of Norfolk, Va. (The remaining 15% is owned by Conrail employees.) The $1.2 billion purchase would unite two of the three dominant eastern railroads and forge the largest U.S. freight line, with 34,000 miles of track. The third big railroad, CSX, which runs the Chessie and Seaboard lines, complained that the merger would create a giant that would flatten rivals like pennies on a rail. Some companies...
...Administration can also look forward to an uphill grind in removing itself from the passenger-railroad business. The fiscal 1986 budget that President Reagan sent to Congress last week proposes to cut all Government subsidies for Amtrak. The move would save $717 million next year and, according to Dole, about $8 billion over the next decade. It would also probably bring an end to passenger trains on such long-haul routes as Chicago- San Francisco and New York-Savannah...
...Administration argues that Amtrak is a prime candidate for the ax because it carries only 2% of long-haul passenger traffic (vs. 86% for airlines and 12% for buses). Moreover, Dole maintains, the railroad is a gravy train for middle- and upper-income passengers. A survey of riders in the Northeast showed that 55% had incomes of $30,000 or more...