Word: doled
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While Nakasone was open and relaxed when talking with Administration officials, he found little to smile about once he ventured to see congressional leaders. His stops included an hourlong session with Senate < Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Republican Chief Robert Dole, in addition to a meeting with top House members. Byrd bluntly told him that the U.S. should keep its tariffs on Japanese electronic goods until Tokyo abandons all unfair trade practices. The Senate leader argued the same point in a letter to Reagan that warned against lifting sanctions until Tokyo demonstrates "sustained compliance" with trade agreements. Yet Nakasone...
...family. In the absence of forthright research from liberals and blacks, writes Wilson, right-wing scholars like Charles Murray (Losing Ground) gained influence with the Reagan Administration by asserting that welfare programs had become so lucrative that they provided greater economic incentive for poor families to go on the dole than...
...divides the presidential contenders in both parties in ways that confound the traditional left-right political spectrum. Among Republicans, New York Congressman Jack Kemp is an ardent free trader, Vice President George Bush loyally supports the President's advocacy of limited sanctions against Japan, and Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole is, to put it bluntly, all over the map. The Kansas Senator has at various points supported both Senate Democrats and the Administration on trade while also aggressively promoting subsidies for agricultural exports. Trade is an issue for Republicans, but among Democrats it could emerge as the salient issue...
...attorney claims that Armitage was in Bangkok setting up a company that allegedly served as a front for the movement of opium money during a period in the late 1970s; part of that time he was actually living in Washington and working as administrative assistant to Senator Robert Dole...
...same time the college is proposing to cut the amount of money they dole out in financial aid, administrators also want to increase student undergraduate enrollment by about 100 students, or almost 10 percent of its 1100-member student body, Myers said...