Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the soft goals, Mazzoleni, stuck with Jonas, who at 14:01 of the first had made a spectacular glove save on a mini-breakaway by Ryan...
Scorsune restored the Crimson's two-goal cushion at 14:52 on a soft wrist shot similar to the second goal Jonas gave up against Vermont...
...that the biggest debates on bioethics tend to be triggered by oddballs? In early 1998, eccentric physicist Richard Seed ignited a furor when he vowed to clone a human being. (He hasn't been heard from since.) Now comes Ron Harris--fashion photographer, soft-core-porn videographer and the entrepreneurial mind behind such Web ventures as Eros Entertainment Inc. Harris' latest idea: a sexy, come-hither website called Ron's Angels that intends to auction off the eggs of beautiful models...
...site's debut last week at www.ronsangels.com outraged fertility experts and ethicists, who accused Harris of everything from running a soft-core eBay to the Hitlerian crime of eugenics. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who wrote the 1992 federal law regulating fertility clinics, called the operation "crass commercialism." Some suggested that Harris might be more interested in selling ads on a hot website than in selling eggs--or that the whole thing might even be a hoax...
...money? In the weeks preceding a key Senate committee vote on the airlines' substitute, almost $300,000 in soft money went gushing into the accounts of both parties. From January 1997 through June of this year, the airline industry gave Democratic Party committees $1.3 million, the G.O.P. $1.9 million. "Making the charge they bought their way out of trouble--that's kind of a huge charge, but certainly there is the appearance of that," says Holly Bailey of the Center for Responsive Politics...