Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unbudging advocate of rent control. Flynn, a former probation officer, who was a star basketball player at Providence College, says that in Boston the gravest inequality is economic, not racial. Accordingly, he tries not to pander to conventional white prejudices. His mother and tubercular father were on the dole for several years, he says, and so loose talk about " 'welfare chiselers' and 'welfare cheats' makes my stomach turn...
...post-convention campaign but the recent past indicates that if the race is close a debate may be decisive. Certainly in the 1976 contest between Ford and Carter and again in 1980, a debate had a major impact. On the basis of Mondale's showing against Bob Dole in the 1976 vice presidential debate I would much prefer Mondale over Glenn in a debate showdown with President Reagan...
...Elizabeth Hanford Dole, 47. As Secretary of Transportation, Lawyer Dole was the Administration's first female Cabinet member. Her North Carolina roots could help a Republican in the traditionally Democratic South, but her vice-presidential prospects are complicated by the fact that her husband Senator Robert Dole has his eye on the presidency...
...which G.M. and Toyota should be permitted to embark upon their joint effort on the West Coast. Simultaneously, in the special trade representative's office, you have Bill Brock negotiating with the Japanese about a fourth year of protection from Japanese imports of automobiles. Simultaneously, you have Elizabeth Dole at the Department of Transportation developing a new scheme for auto airbags. Now we get into interesting questions: what criteria' should the FTC, Bill Brock, and Elizabeth Dole use to make the decision that they're going to make with regard to the automobile industry...
Majority Leader Howard Baker, 9% for Kansas Senator Robert Dole, 7% for New York Congressman Jack Kemp and 27% undecided...