Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Compared with the Republican primary, the Democratic race looks benign. The favorite is Goddard, a three-term mayor whose father Sam was once Governor. With his Jay Rockefeller looks, Jack Kennedy charm and squeaky-clean politics (he now refuses PAC money), Goddard has Democratic presidential hopeful written all over him. This being Arizona, the unmarried Goddard was forced to campaign for mayor by announcing, "I am not gay." A Phoenix newspaper ran a front-page interview with various former girlfriends attesting to his honesty on the point...
...problems are more than budgetary. Since 1988 it has been conducting a public relations campaign in the Soviet media to eradicate its decades-old image as the repressive arm of the regime. KGB Chief Vladimir Kryuchkov depicts the agency as the lawful and benign upholder of justice, the supporter of perestroika as well as the country's first line of defense against domestic and foreign threats. KGB officials, for example, argue that the agency is the state's primary weapon against organized crime, and that as much as 80% of the agency's forces are engaged in the battle against...
While most of the errors are trivial or benign, others can wreak havoc. For the most part, people remain blissfully unaware of the problems until, like $ me, they are mysteriously stripped of a credit card or rejected for a loan. Says M.E. Buckner, president of Informative Research, a mortgage-credit- reporting company in Anaheim, Calif.: "There are mistakes in the system, and we have mechanisms to correct them, but you correct the system only when a consumer complains...
...encourage students, faculty, staff and tenants to continue to press Harvard to make those changes which would truly transform this University into one benign, involved and responsive to the needs and welfare of this city. Sean T. Buffington...
...window blinds, pale elegant things haunted by Jasper Johns. It proceeds through a prolix series of paintings from the '60s that depict the corner of an imaginary "ideal" and utterly banal room with no furniture in it, done in very close-valued colors that turn the image into a benign parody of Ad Reinhardt's black paintings. Odd little signs -- a blurt of pigment here, a "Have a Nice Day" face there -- float in front of the room. You get the impression that Moskowitz, who has been a Zen student most of his adult life, is repeating a sort...