Word: doles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initiative--part of a $401 million package of budget cuts and new, non-tax revenues--would have forced the bottling industry to give the state money from unclaimed bottle and can deposits. Currently, companies hold aside deposit money in a separate fund and dole it out to stores when they return the empty containers...
...most obvious problem with Social Security is that elderly Rockefellers are just as entitled to benefits as poor widows. Even Ronald W. Reagan, who made a career of blasting free loaders on the dole, recently applied to get his $800 per month...
...energetically backed a cut in the capital gains tax that would mainly benefit wealthy investors. They warned that another veto might be overridden. "We don't need to be known as the party that squeezed the last penny out of the minimum wage," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. After the Administration signaled its agreement, the measure passed the House by a vote of 382 to 37. Quick approval is expected in the Senate, and the President could sign the bill by Thanksgiving...
...your parents on the dole...
...Massachusetts called the episode "a black mark on our diplomacy and our values." Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin declared, "We should go in and capture Noriega." Aspin differentiated between military intervention and "a snatch. All I want is Noriega." In the face of such belligerence, Republican Senator Robert Dole cracked, "Suddenly the place is filled with hawks. They were all doves during the Persian Gulf...