Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Road is a different kind of love story. Its protagonists are not a man and a woman, but a man, a woman, and the books they revere. The title refers to the street address of a small London book shop--Marks and Co.--managed by the quietly unassuming Frank Dole (Anthony Hopkins) or, "F.P.D. for Marks and Co." as he is known to his mail-order customers...
...screen. The sparse dialogue shares time with voice-overs by Bancroft and Hopkins reading aloud the amusing epistolary interchanges between their characters. Perhaps correctly sensing the thinness of the letters gimmick, screenwriter Hugh Whitmore tries to flesh out the story by including little vignettes of Hanff and Dole's lives...
There was disagreement among Republicans as well. When the New York Times last week polled 14 candidates asking how "hypothetical" contenders, pure and impure, should answer the A question, responses spanned the spectrum. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said once a politician has declared for the presidency, he sacrifices his right of privacy. Congressman Jack Kemp, who has had to deny 20-year-old rumors of sexual misconduct, rejected the Times inquiry as "beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate." Vice President George Bush warned the press against "unseemly inquiries into private behavior." Pat Robertson, the other Baptist clergyman seeking...
...Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas questioned the policy which has sent American ships into the midst of the Iran-Iraq war. "We need to rethink exactly what it is we are doing in the Persian Gulf. What are our goals? What is our strategy? What are the risks? And how much cost are we willing...
...little to assist unskilled ghetto youths while benefiting middle-class blacks who are better prepared to take advantage of education and job opportunities. Because of the low number of available jobs in inner cities, the author is wary of widely heralded welfare reforms designed to wean recipients from the dole by requiring them to accept training and jobs. Says Wilson: "If you do create some jobs for those on welfare, you're just going to take them away from the working poor. You have a kind of underclass musical chairs here. You give jobs to one and the other slides...