Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press room, Congressmen tried to put a cautiously upbeat spin on the news. "It seems logical once you get over the first surprise," ventured Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It's something I wouldn't have thought of," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas. "But it turns out it's a good switch...
...James Baker has shed about 600 hairs. Ed Meese has picked up some of Deaver's pounds but none of Baker's hair. The Reagan Cabinet has gained two women and is a little more mellow, but it still has the same jar for its weekly dole of jelly beans...
Weinberger was welcomed back to Washington with a litany of warnings. "I don't believe you can put together a realistic package without including defense," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici. Insisted the newly elected Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole: "Substantial reductions should be forthcoming from the defense budget." From within the Administration, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan led a rearguard action. "It would be very difficult to pass the budget without having defense as part of the package," he said publicly...
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole and FAA Chief Donald Engen insisted that the problems, which were concentrated for the most part among commuter airlines, are being solved without compromising passenger safety. Fully 95% of all carriers are in compliance with federal rules, they emphasized. But public concerns over airline safety violations remain. A week ago, for instance, the FAA grounded Iowa-based American Central. Just one day earlier, a plane operated by Provincetown-Boston Airline, which had resumed flying after a similar suspension, crashed in Jacksonville, killing all 13 Elizabeth Dole people aboard...
...seemed determined to prove that spending can be brought under control his way, by cutting costs and not by raising taxes. In a meeting with ranking congressional Republicans, led by Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and House Minority Leader Robert Michel, the President declared, "I am willing to lead the charge." Reagan was unmoved by the sight of Republicans wincing at his cut-to-the-quick economies. His pungent comment: "I've overcome my distaste for seeing grown...