Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adroitly enough, the President is capable of what looks to everyone else like astonishing reversals indeed. For all his hatred of taxes, the President last summer not only accepted but lobbied hard for the $99 billion, three-year package of revenue-raising measures put together by Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas. Reagan convinced himself, and told the country, that it was mostly a "tax reform" package (parts were, but they nonetheless raised taxes) and that accepting it was the only way to get Congress to agree to more cuts in social spending, an equally high Reagan priority. He followed...
...continued to circle each other warily. A proposal to index Social Security to the wage level rather than the consumer price index--which rose in 1980 twice as fast as wages--came immediately under fire from the AFL-CIO and from the American Association of Retired Persons. In retaliation. Dole demanded recently that the Democrats present the first reform package in the upcoming session...
...Commission on Social Security Reform, is due to present recommendations on the Social Security problem by the end of this year, and, again ideally, Congress will soberly consider the commission's proposals and emerge with a responsible, dipartisan plan. "Between Thanksgiving and Christmas is a perfect time." "Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kans.) has noted cheerfully. "Even politicians aren't very political then...
...questions about his personality and character. Senator John Glenn of Ohio will get a boost in building a campaign organization by the election of his friend Celeste as Governor. Former Vice President Walter Mondale spent part of Tuesday evening phoning winners to of fer his congratulations. And Republican Senator Dole, in election-night network interviews, continued to stake out his role as a moderate and conciliator in the G.O.P. in what many see as an attempt to position himself for the presidency should Reagan decide...
...when Brezhnev called the two rivals into his office to dole out assignments for the celebration of Marx's birthday. Andropov felt reasonably confident. As they sat down. Andropov noticed Chernenko was sweating profousely...