Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...major grain producers, from Canada to Australia, have already eased the Soviets' access to credit; failure to follow suit, U.S. farmers argued, could shut them out of the huge Soviet market. But farm- belt lawmakers complained that the credit guarantees did not go far enough: Senate minority leader Robert Dole of Kansas had hoped for at least $3 billion. Trade experts note that because of Moscow's shortage of hard currency reserves, the U.S.S.R. needed the credits simply to match its normal level of U.S. imports...
...most of the year, the movie industry keeps its social conscience under wraps. Then December rolls around, and like a Park Avenue pasha handing Christmas envelopes to the servants, Hollywood remembers the less fortunate. On this year's dole list are the American Indian (Dances with Wolves), the mentally bereft (Awakenings), the Nisei interned during World War II (Come See the Paradise) -- noble victims all, and all seen through the dewy eyes of a white male star (Kevin Costner or Robin Williams or Dennis Quaid) who elevates their plight by suffering along with them...
...poor London suburb of Brixton and left school at 16 to help support his parents. He drifted for a while before starting what turned out to be a successful career in banking. During that period, he worked as a laborer and even spent some time on the dole. Major later went to Nigeria to do community work; there he confirmed his deep hatred of racism. Following two failed attempts to reach Parliament, Major was elected in 1979 to represent Huntingdon. He is said to have first caught Thatcher's eye when he engaged her in a blazing dinner debate...
...force resolution could encourage Congress to grant such authorization. "It would have some significant impact if the United Nations granted such a resolution," said House Speaker Thomas Foley, one of several leaders who accompanied Bush on his Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole, another of that group, said if the U.N. resolution passed, he would urge Bush to call the full Congress into special session to vote a domestic version. There is a serious question, however, about just what the U.N. resolution would say. Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, speaking to reporters...
...jobs. A Korn/Ferry survey last year of all FORTUNE 1,000 companies found that of the top five jobs below CEO at each firm, only 3% are held by women, up from 1% a decade ago. The record is so dismal that earlier this year, Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole launched an investigation into bias in the corporate suite...