Word: doles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning of the school year most serving ladies taste, figuratively, like grapefruit juice. They all frown or smirk as they dole out small portions. Within a fortnight one can pick out the true grapefruit-juice specimens. They are usually under fifty, and suspect sexual motives in the student's eager smile. Often they try to give the impression that they could beat you up if you tried anything...
Robles proved as much with his Cabinet appointments. Rather than dole out plums to party hacks, he picked competent administrators-most of them nonpolitical, all antiCommunist. None was more surprising than Robles' young chief tax collector, Rodrigo Núñez, 28, a University of Chicago Ph.D. in economics who started work two months ago with a novel approach: he intends to collect the taxes that Panamanians have never paid. Núñez has started auditing the books of the country's 30 biggest companies, has instituted 138 lawsuits in Panama City alone. "Most un-Panamanian...
...Germans emigrate since the Wall went up, saving the Republic nearly $45 million in pensions and state medical care. His new liberality will give 3,000,000 more of the unproductive among East Germany's 17 million population the chance to escape to freedom-and reduce the Communist dole roll...
...proclaimed the need for a peacetime economy with increased welfare agency spending designed to remove people from the welfare dole by training them in jobs which cannot be automated...
...political plus that would no doubt be impressed on the electorate this November. The impression, in fact, began one morning last week when the President, conducting the appropriate ceremonies in the Rose Garden, signed the $947.5 million program into law with 72 give-away pens. "The days of the dole in our country are numbered," he promised fervently. "We are not content to accept the endless growth of relief rolls or welfare rolls. We want to offer the forgotten fifth of our people opportunity and not doles...