Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep things as simple as possible at the plate," Albers said. "I stay relaxed, stay soft and quick with my hands...
Rocketing to the Cal State-Hayward Tournament championship, the soft-ball team (14-9, 0-0 Ivy) climaxed its spring break by defeating Portland State, 4-3, in the tournament final last Saturday...
During the 1996 campaign, Democratic fund raisers recruited some donors who wanted something so badly that both donor and recipient agreed it might be better to keep the whole thing quiet. But "soft money" is easy to trace: the large unregulated contributions show up in FEC reports. So the Democratic National Committee buried the money trail, handing out lists of needy state parties so donors could funnel their money where it would be harder to find. In return, D.N.C. chairman Don Fowler and his staff made sure that assorted Chinese businessmen and now oil financiers got a hearing from...
...coffee with the President and a night in the Lincoln Bedroom. Last week the WTO panel issued a preliminary ruling in Lindner's favor. When that is made final, Lindner stands to gain millions in revenues from new sales in Europe--a good return on the $2 million in soft money that he and his firms have handed both parties since 1990. Republicans too have supported Lindner's banana crusade. (Lindner and Kantor declined to comment...
...Novell has a big geek of its own. Sun Microsystems' house genius, Eric Schmidt, 41, is going to head up the struggling company. Schmidt is credited with helping build Sun (1996 sales: $7 billion) into a hardware behemoth. Soft-spoken and given to windy though usually hysterical jokes, he has a long trail of success: millions in the bank, oodles of patents, the respect of the industry. Why jump to Novell? Friends say there's only one other thing he wants: Bill Gates' scalp...