Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the President's aides consider the proposal for stand-by tax increases to be a "Rube Goldberg" scheme that the legislature will reject. The tax-writing committees of Congress are loath to let the President specify the conditions under which levies should be raised. Republicans Robert Dole of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Barber Conable of New York, a tax expert in the House, put their opposition on the record last week. Many Congressmen and Senators also feel that a plan to raise taxes only if certain conditions prevail is inadequate. They will propose...
When Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, introduces a bill entitled S.1 this week, he will be the first of a phalanx of blockers trying to mow down obstacles to congressional approval of a $168 billion Social Security compromise package. With the bipartisan blessings of President Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, the National Commission on Social Security Reform hammered together the agreement hours short of its Jan. 15 deadline. The commission's success, after months of deadlock, may have saved the entire Social Security issue from becoming fatally ensnared...
...more M.B.A. candidates are now turning to the once shunned field of plant management. Positions in this area can quickly lead to running a division, and they pay well. Among the more popular new businesses are venture-capital firms, which offer high salaries for the talent it takes to dole out cash to promising young companies...
...Reagan." According to his aides, Baker's presidential plans are firmly dated 1988-unless, of course, President Reagan decides not to run for re-election in 1984. If that happens, other G.O.P. presidential aspirants, such as Vice President George Bush, Congressman Jack Kemp of New York and Senator Dole, wait in the wings. As one White House aide worried out loud, "I see an urgency in the President's making his intentions known. I think he needs to give a clear signal. Dole, Baker and Kemp right now aren't sure what's going...