Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlikely coalition of conservative ranchers and left-leaning environmentalists who have put aside their cultural differences and teamed up to launch a grass-roots campaign to save ranches from the bulldozers. The Gunnison Legacy Project, as the effort is known, is the brainchild of Susan Lohr, a soft-spoken ornithologist from California, and Bill Trampe, a lean, crusty rancher whose family has been in the valley for three generations. The bird watcher and the cowboy, as Lohr and Trampe are sometimes called, hope to save 3,000 acres of ranchland in the next year--including half of Duane and Donna...
...bill by July 4, it was the kind of statement that no one, perhaps not even the President himself, took very seriously. Not with both parties addicted to the big money needed to run modern campaigns and especially not with Republicans, who are far more successful at raising the soft money contributions that are the source of much of the abuses, in charge of Congress. Still, the President has remained curiously silent on the matter, barely mentioning it since the February speech until making reforms the subject of last Saturday's radio address: "Let's not let them get away...
...brief statement was issued in the names of the President, the Vice President, and all of the members of Congress. "We've got better things to do," it read, listing three new initiatives to be institued on the Fourth of July: First, all soft-money and corporate contributions to campaigns will be banned. Second, no lobbying activities will be permitted within 20 miles of the Capitol. Finally, to increase communication and cooperation, the President and the Speaker of the House will share a single small office in the White House basement. Members of the media were not allowed...
When Mir Aimal Kansi heard a soft knock on his hotel-room door at 4 a.m. last Sunday, he thought it was a call to prayer. Like most observant Muslims, Kansi prays five times a day, beginning at around 4:30 a.m. And certainly Kansi had a lot weighing on his soul. An accused killer, he was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, and had been on the run for four years. Now he was holed up in the Shalimar Hotel, a seedy establishment in Dera Ghazi Khan, a city in central Pakistan. He groggily opened his door...
Martha was diminutive in stature and notoriously soft-spoken. But as our book critic Paul Gray says, "Her voice in print was firm and unmistakably her own. She never raised her voice when annoyed, but her colleagues would have rather endured tongue-lashings from other editors than face her silent disapproval." She spoke and wrote in a style that was flinty and spare; she was allergic to rhetoric. "Oh dear," she would gently say, lips pursed but eyes slightly smiling, as she crossed out a writer's phrase that was more ornate than enlightening. As a result, her words...