Word: soft
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...supports imposing severe punishment on some young criminals, the White House did not back this measure because it does not include funding for crime prevention programs. While even some supporters were uncomfortable with a bill that contained no prevention or interdiction efforts, most were not willing to risk a "soft-on-crime" label. They cited statistics showing that nearly 20 percent of all violent crimes in the U.S. are committed by children under 18 years old. A coming baby-boomlet (there are currently 39 million children under 10 in the U.S., more than at any time since the 1950s) suggests...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The GOP is scrambling to return $102,400 in donations, prompted by a TIME report that $122,000 in soft money contributions to the Republican National Committee may have come directly from a Hong Kong real estate and aircraft brokerage. Until Thursday, the party had said there was "nothing in our records" to show that the money came from foreign sources rather than Young Brothers Development-USA, the company's Florida-based subsidiary. In a statement, R.N.C. Chairman Jim Nicholson said RNC lawyers did not verify the source of the money until late Wednesday. "Upon learning those facts...
...University pays 100 percent of the medical costs for faculty who retired before 1996. Now, faculty bear up to 50 percent of the cost, and the University has placed a "soft cap" on benefits, reducing the extent to which Harvard guarantees it will keep up with rising medical costs. After 1999, Harvard will increase its contribution by 1 percent less than the increase in premium costs...
Through an interpreter, the soft-spoken monk said, "My story should give you an example of what is happening to Tibetans as a people under Chinese rule...
...Grosse Pointe Blank, its title punning nicely on a famously grim movie about a hit man, is not a one-joke comedy. Nor is it, despite its Disney auspices, cozy family fun. In its soft-spoken way, it is fierce, shaggy and deeply weirded...