Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opposition, the Weld nomination was considered dead on arrival when the White House formally submitted his name last week. In June, Helms had said publicly that the Massachusetts Governor was below "ambassador quality" and that he did not want to send drug-soaked Mexico a man he characterized as soft on drugs. (Weld approves of medicinal marijuana.) Although a fiscal conservative, Weld is too liberal on things like abortion and gay rights to pass muster with Helms. And the Senator still harbors a grudge against Weld, a former U.S. prosecutor, for resigning from the Reagan Justice Department...
...minivans the extension is straightforward and uncomplicated--a means of transportation for housewives and family men (family persons?). For the upper-middle-class American man circa 1997, the cliche is undone. The sport-utility vehicle is not an expression but a denial--a carapace, a hard shell concealing the soft center within...
While some Democrats blame the high cost of political advertising during the '96 race for the party's overseas chase of unrestricted "soft money," Lippo funds had started flowing four years earlier, according to checks produced at the hearings. After Clinton secured the nomination in 1992, the Riady family, which owns Lippo, contributed $480,000 to Democrats, most of it scattered quietly to state parties. The same year, Lippo provided an additional $50,000 to the national party. The money was sent in by a U.S. subsidiary controlled by Huang and identified as a political gift in his expense report...
...didn't know each other well; they first met when Shelton sought then Senator Cohen's vote for the Special Ops post last year. But they hit it off immediately. "They're both low key and soft spoken," says a top Cohen aide. "Shelton is a man of few words, and the Secretary knows they count...
...alluring from the start, and Cary Grant, who made his movie debut in Chang's Singapore Sue. Some stars Hollywood couldn't figure out. Merman, setting a torch to After You're Gone in Be Like Me, is tough, sexy, charismatic--a singing Stanwyck. But film musical heroines were soft creatures, and Merman was sent back to Broadway...