Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Johnny Rotten: "The millionaire groups were singing about love and their own hang-ups. That's stupid. You don't sing about love to people on the dole." Blithefully, whiningly, punk says anything and everything. As the Sex Pistols chant, "God save the Queen/ She ain't no human being...
They include teachers and policemen, postal workers and bus drivers, health-lab technicians and jail keepers, IRS and Secret Service clerks. All are on a public payroll-and all have connived to be simultaneously on the public dole. Last week, in the latest crackdown against a special breed of welfare cheater, 164 civil servants in Chicago and New York City were indicted for double-dealing an extra slice of the taxpayers' pie. Said U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner in Chicago: "The problem is immense. There is an astonishing lack of respect for law from public employees. We rest our whole...
Would-be welfare reformers have long raised a basic question: Why not require able-bodied people on the dole to perform worthwhile labor for their checks? Five years ago, California's then Governor Ronald Reagan introduced an ambitious program for providing chores or "training" for all healthy adult recipients, except for mothers with children under six. The legislature voted to abolish it less than three years later, however, amid charges that it constituted slave labor. Last year New York City revived a similar program targeted mainly at some 50,000 men and women without children and found work...
...case, one much talked of method of saving fuel, the development of the electric car, is not even mentioned in the GM study. Its deficiencies are familiar to Detroit, but they were sarcastically highlighted last week by Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole, who jokingly claims to have got a look at one of Energy Chief James Schlesinger's secret projects. Said Dole: "It's an electric car that will take you from Washington to Los Angeles on $4.12 worth of electricity-but the extension cord costs...
...Finance Committee, a group studded with stars like Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.), Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Sen. John Tower (R-Tex.) and chaired by Sen. Russell Long (D-La.), then voted unanimously to send Champion's nomination to the full Senate with a recommendation to confirm...