Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outsider looks at Harvard as a wealthy institution, but we don't dole out money from the center-we have 55 different tubs on their own bottoms," she said...
...Billy Carter was shown no favoritism. Billy Jones might have got the same treatment." This seemed to mollify the Senators, even acerbic Republican Robert Dole of Kansas. Said he of the Justice Department's treatment of Billy: "You look at it one way and it looks very bad, and you look at it another way, and there's nothing much [wrong]." Some Senators clearly were beginning to believe that the probe was much ado about nothing...
While Carter's spirited defense added little to what was already known, it did persuade millions of television viewers that there was nothing illegal or unethical in the way he had handled the affair of Billy and his Libyan friends. Republican Senator Robert Dole, a member of the investigating subcommittee, declared: "If it all turns out just like it is in the [President's] report, we can all endorse the report and go home." But Dole made it clear that he still had some questions...
...college publications roughly on the bottom) got on the floor, and that lesser lights stayed off. The media operations center run by the Republican National Committee fed the journalists an endless series of press releases. Other "publications," like "The Dick Lugar News" and "News about Bob Dole" mysteriously appeared alongside prepared texts of speeches. Thrilling reading, these...
Bush rejects the notion that having a full-time public responsibility is a handicap, since public positions can be used to gain the all-important exposure. Says he of Dole and Baker: "They were out there in Iowa a lot too, plus they had a spotlight out of Washington that a person like me didn't have." Restricting early campaigning, he thinks, would "infringe on a person's fundamental right to seek the presidency...