Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...permanent segment of the service economy, the handlers have naturally acquired many of the traits of any other bureaucracy. As they get more sophisticated, they move from product to product, campaign to campaign. The special sense of mission diminishes, the sense of omnipotence increases, and ultimately a kind of benign contempt for the candidate develops...
...political season began, the nation was supposed to see a new Reagan: as conservative as ever, but speaking in gentler words, campaigning less strenuously, maintaining a benign air toward rivals. The reasoning was developed by John Sears: after his previous campaigns, all Republicans knew where Reagan stood, so there was no longer any need to fire up the conservatives. Rather, the necessity was to maintain what seemed like a long lead by shunning any rhetoric that would frighten away moderates. Thus...
...group of black students had threatened to boycott graduation if Moynihan spoke because of his recommendation ten years ago to the Nixon administration of a policy of "benign neglect" for racial minorities...
...most dramatic and powerful political arenas of the century Palestinian terrorists understood that when in 1972 they crashed into Munich and left eleven Israelis dead. The Olympics so dramatically catch the attention of the world that hey have become an irresistible repository for all kinds of political hopes, benign and malevolent...
Returning to public office with the Democrats in 1977, Solomon became Treasury Under Secretary and the Carter Administration's tactician in dollar diplomacy. After a stumbling start when he supported a "benign neglect" policy that permitted the American currency to depreciate rapidly in value, Solomon switched strategy in November 1978 to become a strong dollar defender. During the past year he has tried to negotiate the dollar's organized retreat from its role as the world's basic reserve currency by strengthening the powers and reserve assets of the International Monetary Fund. Says he: "None...