Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Time correspondent in the living room of his two-story white-brick home in an affluent northern suburb of Indianapolis. He eagerly outlined the themes of his campaign. Insisting that he felt vigorous despite treatment for blood clots last December and the removal of his appendix because of a benign tumor a month later, Quayle delighted in the belief that his message of family values was gaining currency. ``There is still a residue of the old stereotype of me that was formed in the first few weeks of the 1988 campaign, but in due course it will be erased...
...downsized many federal programs, he failed to exempt the states from picking up the slack. Result: big federal-budget cuts and big increases in state taxes. This time both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue were on board, but even as Gingrich looked on and Clinton talked about moving beyond the ``benign mistrust'' that he said had characterized federal-state relations, some of the Governors still felt benignly mistrustful...
Whereas some Americans simply retreat behind bigger door locks, others are becoming increasingly active, joining street patrols, reforming schools and seeking alternative health care. Not every corrective impulse is completely benign. Many Americans have stocked up on guns and walled in their communities. The question that remains is whether America's notion of personal responsibility will prove to be selfish and inward-looking, or expansive and community-minded...
...predicted almost three-quarters of the malignancies that developed within four years among thousands of middle-age and elderly men. Just as important, the test had a low rate of false positives, 9 percent. That means that the test will steer most patients away from unnecessary surgery.Many men with benign or slow-growing tumors decline surgery, since it may not lengthen their lives, but it often causes such unpleasant consequences as incontinence and impotence...
...There's nothing benign about capitalism," she says.CrimsonAndrew K. Sacha...