Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invitation went to Bob Dole, Reagan loyalists were crestfallen, reading in that rebuff the end of their man's life in politics. Only Reagan took it well, content to settle forever on his ranch, if it came to that, but also believing (as few others did) that even at age 65 you can run into luck...
...from typical. He cultivates about 3,000 acres of prime land in west-central Illinois, near Galesburg, that is worth about $10 million. His operation includes 6,000 hogs in a farrow-to-finish operation. He also had the backing of Kansas Senator Robert Dole, who sent a map of the U.S. to Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, one of Reagan's closest advisers, that was marked with states from which Cabinet members had already been picked. Wrote Dole in an accompanying note: "Paul, this blank space is called the Midwest...
There is a tremendous irony running through these protests, for in a purely financial sense, the region lives on the federal dole. Tot up a year's spending by the Federal Government in the Rocky Mountain States- $20.5 billion on land and forest management, aid to agriculture, water of other projects, federal military bases programs and - a and saddlebag compare that with the total received from the states in taxes and other revenues - $14.5 billion -and Washington comes up $6 billion short. Admits Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church, who was voted out of office last month: "As beneficiaries...
...added session, which may end this week after Congress approves funds for government operations through the end of January, has not completely lacked examples of conservative in-fighting. Sens. Robert Dole, (R-Ks.) and James A. McClure (R-Id.), for example, have criticized the president-elect on his plans for federal belt-tightening...
Strategists for the campaigns of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), Gov. Edmund G. Brown (D-Calif.), Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kans.), Vice-President-elect George Bush, and former Texas Governor John B. Connally will also speak, as will chairman of the Republican National Committee, and the Les Francis, executive director of the Democratic National Committee...