Word: gentler
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...requires colleges to publish campus crime statistics annually or risk losing federal aid. Similar legislation has already been enacted in several states, but the federal version has met with opposition from the Bush Administration. Now, before any more deranged killers offer more reasons to do so, the "kinder and gentler" President must sign the legislation...
...days when very few came out of the closet, and when heavily masculine types applied brutally obscene epithets to presumed homosexuals, gentler but still condescending terms like the quasi-official title chosen by male homosexuals themselves I cannot imagine. In this country and England one of its meanings was "an agressively forward or impertinent manner...
Though routinely maligned as a decade of swinish greed, the 1980s also produced a kinder, gentler brand of storytelling, one that might be described as "eco-feminist" fiction. The central plot of this evolving subgenre has become reasonably clear. Women, relying on intuition and one another, mobilize to save the planet, or their immediate neighborhoods, from the ravages -- war, pollution, racism, etc. -- wrought by white males. This reformation of human nature usually entails the adoption of older, often Native American, ways. Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home (1985), an immense novel disguised as an anthropological treatise, contains nearly...
...biggest fear is that Iraq will attack civilians with poison gas. With events spiraling out of control, only an extraordinary breakthrough seems capable of averting disaster. -- Americans are rallying around the flag. But their long-term support depends on Bush's leadership. -- Saddam tries to put a kinder, gentler face on his seizure of thousands of hostages -- and fails...
...ways, George Bush has spent the past year and a half distancing himself from Ronald Reagan. His White House press room is used for press conferences, not games of hide-and-seek; his First Lady prefers gardening in slacks to hostessing in a designer dress. Even the phrase "kinder, gentler" was a covert, backward-looking rebuke: Kinder and gentler than...