Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...essentially of water and natural fruit chunks or juice. Sales of the bars jumped nearly 50% last year, to more than $300 million. Frozfruit, a small company based in Gardena, Calif., introduced the first frozen fruit bar nationally eight years ago. But the novelty did not catch on until Dole Food (1986 revenues: $1.7 billion), a division of Castle & Cooke, started selling its own fruit-juice bars three years ago. Frozfruit bars ($2.49 for a box of four) contain chunks of strawberries, pineapples or bananas, while Dole Fruit 'N Juice bars ($2.59 for six bars) come in five flavors, including...
...Soviet aggrandizement, warned of the implications of a U.S. tilt toward Iraq in its 6 1/2-year war with Iran. Jeane Kirkpatrick advised the Administration to go slow. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, called Reagan's plan "half baked, poorly developed." Said his Republican counterpart, Bob Dole of Kansas: "I don't think anyone knows quite what the policy is." Even ultraconservative Republican Senator Jesse Helms remarked that Congress needed "more answers" from the Administration before approving the reflagging plan...
...flurry of proposals dramatizes the renewed clout of organized labor in the corridors of Congress. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, is more receptive when labor buzzes in his ear than was his predecessor, Republican Robert Dole of Kansas. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, an avid defender of workers, has replaced the decidedly less sympathetic Utah Republican Orrin Hatch as chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Democrats who are friendly to or received campaign money from the labor movement are in positions to help along the bulk of the business-related legislation. Boasts...
...reactions to the President's reflagging plan are many, and they generally fall along party lines. For example, among presidential candidates, Democrats (with the notable exception of Senator Albert Gore) are trying to restrain him. Republicans (with the notable exception of Robert Dole and Alexander Haig) are supporting...
Congress would not let Reagan off the hook. "We need to rethink exactly what we are doing in the Persian Gulf," said Republican Senate Leader Bob Dole, a candidate to succeed Reagan. "What are our goals? What is our strategy? What are the risks? And how much cost are we willing to pay?" Dole co-sponsored a resolution with Democrat Robert Byrd requiring that the , President present Congress with an analysis of those questions. Said Byrd: "I believe that it is appropriate to ask the Administration to provide the Congress with a full report before we implement any agreement with...