Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaving now, Lewis avoids having to take sides in the bitter Washington debate likely to be fought over the President's troubled economic program. The White House wants to announce a successor before Lewis cleans out his desk, and is giving serious thought to nominating Elizabeth Dole, assistant to the President for public liaison and the wife of Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole...
...efficient functioning of the incoming Congress will depend on the ability of moderate Senate Republicans, like Baker and Robert Dole of Kansas, to broker consensus policies acceptable to both Reagan and the House Democratic leadership. For this to work, Helms and his band of renegade Republicans must be controlled better than they were during the lameduck session. In addition, Reagan, who up to now has had great success in persuading Congress to do his bidding, must show that he also has the flexibility to work with the institution when it asserts more independence. Otherwise, the pendulum will swing from...
Cable-television operators, assisted by Georgia Senator Mack Mattingly (who was looking out for Atlanta Cable Magnate Ted Turner), got a reprieve from having to pay higher royalty fees on network programming. At the insistence of Kansas Senator Robert Dole, who was lobbied by the National Rifle Association, gun purveyors were exempted from recording sales of .22 cal. rimfire ammunition...
...Reagan and O'Neill are playing coy. The President, who bridles at talk of tax increases, last week rejected a taunting suggestion from Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole, another commission member, that Reagan is "frightened to death about Social Security." Still, Reagan declared, "We are waiting for the commission to come back and tell us, could they agree on a plan." O'Neill, who is loath to consider a limit on benefits, nonetheless has said that he will go along with one if the commission's Democrats* endorse it. But he too takes the position that...
...Republicans, Bush and Baker are still available, for 1988 if not 1984, and perhaps Senator Robert Dole, steadily positioning himself toward the center, and Congressman Jack Kemp, steadily holding to the right. Also: Richard Thornburgh, Governor of Pennsylvania; Robert Ray and William Milliken, retiring Governors of Iowa and Michigan; and two attractive political alumni now hi industry, former Congressman and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, chief executive officer of Searle, and William Ruckelshaus, former Deputy Attorney General, now senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser...