Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year later he called for "orderly" U.S. withdrawal. In 1971 Muskie at first refused for technical reasons to support the McGovern-Hatfield amendment demanding a complete U.S. pullout by the end of 1971; having received considerable pressure, he now supports the amendment. The Republican national chairman, Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, calls Muskie a "political Rip van Winkle" on the war. Clearly a case of indecision or soul searching, but few U.S. politicians can claim a consistent position on Viet...
...Ratings. His party's attitude toward McCloskey has been to pretend he isn't there. Says G.O.P. National Committee Chairman Robert Dole coyly: "I haven't heard of him. How do you spell that last name? McWhat? We really don't have much dealing with him. This is the Republican National Committee." But the posturing is unconvincing; the lesson of the 1968 Democratic primary in New Hampshire is not lost on G.O.P. strategists...
...private housing market, supported by FHA mortgage insurance and tax credits that favor the wealthy, has proved so inefficient that the state must intervene directly. It will not suffice to dole out income subsidies to meet the housing needs of the state. What must be forcibly eliminated are the restrictive building regulations and zoning laws which price out even moderate income housing...
...Your article on welfare was enlightening in several respects. However, a prevalent "myth" you did not dispel is this: so many families on the dole keep right on having children, thus abusing, complicating and perpetuating the deplorable welfare situation...
...likelihood of a third World War and that the population explosion (in most of the world, at least) will continue unchecked. "In the indigent two-thirds of the human race," asserts Historian Arnold Toynbee, "family planning will be long delayed. The surplus population will live miserably, without hope, on dole from the productive minority." The futurists also believe that the prosperity of the industrial countries will reach even greater heights, that Japan will be the No. 1 power of the 21st century, and that the revolution in mores and social values-"redesigning a way of life" in the words...