Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nevada and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, were upset at the tactic, fearing that years of work on the code would be sunk by this extra weight. Neither the new code nor the N.R.A. bill ever made it to a Senate vote. Two other N.R.A. supporters, Republican Robert Dole of Kansas and Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia, were annoyed by the lobby's relentless but ultimately unsuccessful effort to block the confirmation last fall of former Illinois Congressman Abner Mikva, a strong gun-control advocate, as a federal judge...
Reagan greeted two dozen Hispanic leaders in the Cabinet Room and conferred with them in private after photographers were allowed to take a few pictures. Aides Lyn Nofziger and Elizabeth Dole sat in on the meeting. One topic of the discussion: Reagan's efforts to place Hispanics in Government positions...
Sanford's panel includes some 20 heavyweights from both major parties, among them former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, Republican Senator Robert Dole, Carter National Campaign Chairman Robert Strauss and onetime Reagan Presidential Campaign Manager John Sears. In coming months the group will hold a series of meetings around the country, under the auspices of Duke and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, inviting contributions from politicians, journalists, campaign organizers, pollsters and anybody else with ideas about ending the current chaos. The committee hopes to build enough momentum to cause the rules committees of both parties to make...
...itself." That is how California Governor Ronald Reagan described welfare in 1971. He has been waging war on that system of public support ever since. Now, as President, Reagan wants to eliminate the "legitimate fraud" of people who, he says, are fit to work but who qualify for the dole. His solution: workfare, a program in which able-bodied welfare recipients take community public service jobs to repay part of the value of their benefits...
...Dole: Mr. President, my wife attended Harvard University, so I have so comment...