Word: doled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...government sweetened the deal by promising lenders a specified interest rate regardless of what student borrowers pay. Add low default rates (due in part to such dire consequences as garnisheed wages and torpedoed credit ratings) as well as soaring tuitions, and--voilŕ!--lenders are fighting one another to dole out $17 billion in supplemental loans that aren't backed by the government...
...After diagnosing Grandma Opal ’09—who, unlike Open Face, actually did have herpes—the nurse, “Mrs. Buttsavitch,” took it upon herself to dole out the much-needed consolation...
...Bush should boot his Vice President before he strikes again. It's an often forgotten fact that three of the past six Presidents either dumped or tried to dump their Vice Presidents: Richard Nixon tossed Spiro Agnew for Gerald Ford in 1973, Ford tossed Nelson Rockefeller and tapped Bob Dole as a running mate in the 1976 campaign, and Bush's father George Herbert Walker Bush let his top aides try to give the heave-ho to Vice President Dan Quayle when he was dragging down the G.O.P. ticket by three or four points...
...Tuesday morning that he is creating a commission to investigate the problem of poor care and bureaucratic snafus in the nation's military and veterans' hospitals. To lead the commission, Bush's White House deftly picked a severely wounded ex-soldier, former GOP Senate leader and Presidential candidate Robert Dole, and an expert on health care, former Clinton Cabinet member Donna Shalala...
...young Army officer in World War II, Dole was seriously wounded in action in the Italian Apennine Mountains. He spent years recovering from his wounds before becoming a U.S. senator from Kansas and running unsuccessfully for President in 1996. Shalala was Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Clinton. She is now president of the University of Miami. Members of the American Legion applauded when Bush announced their appointments. "We have a moral obligation to provide the best possible care and treatment to the men and women who served our country," Bush said. "They deserve it and they...