Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such New Right Turks as Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich, invited South African Ambassador Bernardus Fourie to Capitol Hill and gave him a letter threatening to support economic sanctions against South Africa unless there is "a demonstrated sense of urgency about ending apartheid." South Africa, they warned, cannot count on "benign neglect" by American conservatives of its racial policies...
...money to any candidate in one state from sources in any other state. Wise laws can conscript time from the networks to be shared evenhandedly between the major candidates. New laws can and must help. Yet, in the end, politics is the entry way to power, cruel or benign, and in our system...
...page booklet entitled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare is a primer on insurgency, a how-to book in the struggle for hearts and minds. Some of the "techniques of persuasion" are benign: helping the peasants harvest crops, learn to read, improve hygiene. Others are decidedly brutal: assassination, kidnaping, blackmail, mob violence...
...Bethesda Naval Medical Center. The supervising examiner concluded that "Mr. Reagan is a mentally alert, robust man who appears younger than his stated age." The report noted some "diminished auditory acuity" (Reagan wears a small hearing aid in his right ear) and the presence of a small, benign polyp in his colon. The President takes weekly injections for allergies, but no other medicine. Reagan aides reminded reporters that Mondale takes three pills a day for high blood pressure...
Despite the benign temperament and capitalist success of the group's members, who dress in sunrise colors (orange, red and lilac), the rest of Wasco County has greeted them with an understandable mixture of bemusement, fear and anger. The Rajneeshees have been scouring the country in search of recruits among homeless street people, enticing them to come live on their pastoral spread with promises of vegetarian meals and an unharried atmosphere. While the Rajneeshees have refused to explain their motives in this recruitment drive, their neighbors have come to the not unreasonable conclusion that the aim is to enlarge...