Word: smidgens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...congressional campaign and related issues. She absolutely did not admit she lied about a transaction that enabled her to contribute what she believed to be personal funds to her campaign, nor was she "a knowing beneficiary of the con artist--who knows an easy mark is someone with a smidgen of larceny in her heart." By blaming Waldholtz, Carlson cruelly perpetuates a "blame the victim" mentality to explain the blatantly deceptive actions of the Representative's estranged husband and former campaign treasurer, Joe Waldholtz. For years, rape victims were blamed because they left a window open or went out alone...
...many others. Indeed, Joe scammed Enid and her father in the end (for $2 million more than went into her campaign), but that doesn't mean that she wasn't, in the beginning, a knowing beneficiary of the con artist--who knows an easy mark is someone with a smidgen of larceny in her heart. It was Enid who originally employed the "millionaire's loophole" in 1992, before she ever married Joe. Calling on a technique that figured prominently in her campaign-finance course at Brigham Young University, Enid used $150,000 of her father's money by selling back...
...there was any lingering doubt that the computer has become ensconced as a member of the American family, it was dispelled at the turn of the year by some startling statistics. For the first time ever, consumers in 1994 bought $8 billion worth of PCs -- just a smidgen away from the $8.3 billion they spent on TVs. The sales record in terms of dollars is bound to fall to the computer soon, though the TV's cheaper price guarantees its dominion in numbers for a while...
...more than 39 million, or 15% of the nation's population. Worse, median income continued to decline, while the inequality between high- and low-income families increased. Labor Secretary Robert Reich openly showed concern that the U.S. was in danger of becoming a "two-tiered society." There was a smidgen of good news at week's end: new figures showed an unemployment rate of 5.9% -- the lowest in four years...
...Frank Corder do it? He appeared to be depressed by the death of his father and the recent breakup of his marriage. What's clear is that he had a history of alcohol and drug abuse, and died with a .045 blood-alcohol content, just a smidgen above the legal limit for pilots. His blood also showed trace amounts of cocaine. Relatives said Corder might have had publicity in mind because he once talked admiringly of Mathias Rust's 1987 landing in Red Square. A brother reportedly was told of a suicide plan...