Word: soft
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Army ROTC official Rooney acknowledges that students who want to switch majors may encounter resistance from the Army if they're moving into "soft sciences" or humanities...
...bandwagon headed down a dark alley. In the hope of getting something passed, John McCain and Russell Feingold had already agreed to drop ideas like their offer of free television time to candidates who accept voluntary campaign-spending caps. Their bill's main surviving feature is a ban on "soft money" contributions, which pay for general party-building activities as opposed to individual campaigns. But even before the Senate debate started, Republican leaders, including Lott and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, were predicting that the smaller bill would go nowhere. "We'll debate it," promised Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky...
Even if it passes, McCain-Feingold is likely to be more useful as a solution for Washington's current embarrassments than as a defense against future mischief. Among the lawyers, fund raisers and campaign consultants who make up the city's election industry, any ban on soft money is expected simply to enhance the importance of campaign expenditures by individuals and special-interest groups. Of the record $2 billion spent by both parties and their outside supporters in campaign '96, close to $160 million came from unions and such groups as the Christian Coalition, the National Rifle Association...
...that unions and other groups can run as many ads as they want expressing their views on issues, so long as they don't "expressly advocate" a particular candidate. That's one reason why AFL-CIO president John Sweeney had no problem last week calling for a ban on soft money. Most of the union cash in the last election went for issues ads, which a soft-money ban won't reach. McCain-Feingold may try to restrict those within the last month or two of a campaign, but any such limits would be sure to face a Supreme Court...
...producers and regular correspondents (among them, veteran Bernard Goldberg and the young, powder blue-shoe wearing Alison Stewart) come mostly from other CBS newsmagazines, such as 48 Hours and the network's mercifully short-lived Coast to Coast. Taped segments will cover the usual mix of hard and soft news, with stories ranging from Bosnian war criminals to incompetent telephone operators. Hidden-camera reports, producers say, will occasionally be used in the broadcast...