Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are parts aplenty. In the Senate waits Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole, who is barely lukewarm to Reagan's tax plan, and Louisiana's Russell Long, the committee's ranking Democrat. Long and his House counterpart, Barber Conable of New York, ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, do not command enough votes to pass a tax bill, but both have the power to grease, or gum up, the works. Long has said, only half in jest, "I think every Senator should have at least one amendment" to the tax measure...
...shape of a compromise began to emerge last week as the Administration exchanged hints with the other players. An important signal came when Rostenkowski remarked on television that he could see the possibility of a two-year tax package. Another came later in the week, when Dole announced that the President's tax bill lacked support on the Finance Committee. It was a warning to the White House not to take the Senate for granted...
...messages got through. Secretary Regan picked up Rostenkowski's hint and passed word, through Conable, to "tell Danny that I want to talk to him." Dole's signal was also received, and he was brought into the dialogue. These talks laid the basis for what may eventually be a Dole-Rostenkowski tax bill, which, noted one aide, would have the advantage of allowing everyone to take credit for "a statesman-like compromise" while removing the partisan Kemp-Roth label...
...fashion its own offensive. For most of the three months after the campaign began, his party acted as though the election were already won and set about choosing who among them would be the winners. That, in Israel's complicated proportional representation, involves elaborate wheeling and dealing to dole out ranks on the party list, the 120-candidate roster from which the voters will select the new Knesset members. Because the percentage of the popular vote determines how many on the list will be elected, places at the top are the prizes. The jockeying for position can be fierce...
...Center-Right Candidate Valery Giscard d'Estaing was the first to drop his customary Olympian hauteur. In a series of campaign rallies last week, France's incumbent President denounced Socialist Contender Francois Mitterrand as a captive of the Communists. "From now on," Giscard told his supporters in Dole, "whether he wants to or not, whether he knows it yet or not, Monsieur Mitterrand is also speaking on behalf of the Communists." Warming to this theme at a rally in Dijon, Giscard declared that "if Mitterrand is elected, it will be Commu nist order or Socialist disorder...