Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result, the dominant system of the past half century is in the process of breaking down and China has moved from typical totalitarian to a state of "soft authoritarianism...
Emerging from the stream of students throwing soft footballs and exam- ining their new J.P. Morgan pens, Campbell admitted that he appreciated getting a "new bubble pen" as well as learning about new career opportunities...
...doesn't matter whether the money is hard or soft, or where the phone call was made, or who placed the call. Only the amount matters, because that determines the extent to which our democracy is nullified and the degree to which our votes are negated. GERARD C. LAMMERS Oswego...
...latest Janet, on her new album The Velvet Rope, is omnivorous, sexually and musically: folk, hip-hop, man, woman, it's all in play. Her basic sound, however, is the same--her small, soft voice surrounded by imposing, muscular dance beats. The album has more than a few striking moments, from Vanessa-Mae's rubbed-raw violin solo on the title track to the brutal frankness of What About, in which a woman rejects a marriage proposal from an abusive boyfriend. Jackson occasionally relies too heavily on others--Got 'Til It's Gone draws smartly on Joni Mitchell...
Thursday?s nuggets: Clinton pregnant warning to donors at a May 1996 White House dinner, "This (election) could get away from us in a hurry." And his blatant admission at a Michigan fund-raiser: That a Democratic Party TV ad campaign financed by "soft-money" donations was "central to the position I now enjoy in the polls...