Word: doled
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...which protection from academic consequences would be counter to the University’s basic mission. When McCarthy-era administrators sought to judge the ideologies of professors, they were rightly opposed by supporters of academic freedom. Those supporters should equally oppose attempts by the University or by professors to dole out rewards and punishments based on the ideologies of their students...
...Kerrville, 100 miles due west of Austin, it's easy to catch the fever. At Joe's Jefferson Street Cafe, cell phones of Realtors chirp away during lunch with calls from buyers willing to dole out $3 million to $4 million for hardscrabble land with little productive value. "Cost is not an object," marvels appraiser Billy Snow, cutting into his chicken-fried steak. Architectural firms such as Kerrville's Artisan Group are busy building homes as big as country clubs with private jetports. "People have built castles, actual castles," says Kerr County's chief appraiser, Fourth Coates. "They even change...
...European Union and the United States announced an accord Wednesday to end their years-long dispute over whether E.U. trade policy illegally favored bananas imported from former European colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific over cheaper bananas from Latin America sold by U.S. firms Chiquita and Dole. The E.U. promised to reduce those quotas from 850,000 to 750,000, and the U.S., in exchange, will lift price-doubling retaliatory tariffs on European imports ranging from French handbags to British linens and Danish ham, tariffs the Clinton administration felt justified in imposing after it won a WTO decision...
...Colonial guilt might seem like a poor reason for the E.U. to prefer Caribbean bananas to the by-all-accounts superior Latin America bananas grown under Chiquita's and Dole's aegis. But Europe's policy was aimed at a "trade not aid" goal of keeping small family farms afloat. The U.S. stance, meanwhile, seems to have been designed almost solely by hundreds of thousands of soft-money contributions to the Democrats made by Chiquita owner Carl Lindner...
MARCH 2001 Married Bob Dole appears in a Pepsi ad aired nationwide during the Oscars ogling the considerably younger Britney Spears