Word: benignantly
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...White House Travel Office didn't help. Halfway through President Clinton's first term, it seemed that Hillary might finally stop meddling where she didn't belong. She retreated from the spotlight, changed her haircut and wrote a book about children and villages. For a while, she was fairly benign...
...March 1998, Defense Intelligence Agency agents slipped into Baghdad as UNSCOM operatives to install the devices covertly. The new devices were unmanned, hidden in seemingly benign objects--relieving inspectors of the dangerous backpacks. Signals intercepted by the new hardware were beamed up to a satellite and downloaded to the NSA's headquarters at Fort Meade in Maryland. The agency then used supercomputers that were alerted to key words to help "listen" to conversations and edit out irrelevant chatter...
...Justice Department descended in full force on the supposedly benign world of college admissions, bringing changes that reshaped the cost of higher education...
...vast majority of other trials, scientists are hard at work developing a new generation of viral vectors. One promising candidate, says Pennsylvania's Wilson, is the AAV (adeno-associated virus), a small, benign human virus that does not seem to cause any disease. "It doesn't elicit the same kind of inflammatory response that the other vectors do," Wilson explains. "It's somehow evolved the way to get around that." The AAV also efficiently insinuates itself into nondividing cells and, in tests with monkeys and mice, has enabled the therapeutic gene engineered into it to express itself for more than...
...Ruth and Maris in one headline. McGwire's major league life wasn't yet 60 games old. Soon he rushed past the rookie home-run record, and crowds of reporters buzzed around him like so many mosquitoes on a July night in St. Louis. Still, his mien was so benign that one of his nicknames was McGee-Whiz. In September of that year--he hadn't yet turned 24--he looked to become only the 11th man in baseball history to hit 50 home runs in a season. Going into the last day, he had 49. He also...