Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children need to hear a clear and consistent no-use message about marijuana--that it is illegal, dangerous and wrong. Research tells us it limits learning, memory, perception, judgment and motor skills, and it damages the brain, heart, lungs and immune system. Marijuana is not a "soft" drug...
...Some soft-spoken women can be drowned out in meetings and class sections, she said...
Officials say the new procedures alerted them to potential trouble with Nicholson months before the full criminal investigation began in January. But for most of his career, Nicholson had few of the markers that are supposed to identify a soft spot in the ranks. He lived moderately and got first-rate performance evaluations. He was congenial but, as a good spy should be, inconspicuous, "kind of a gray figure," one CIA senior official recalls...
Certainly watching a father turn his son in because that son has killed his grandchild is heart wrenching. So was the sight of Barbara Peterson hiding her head in her son's soft fleece jacket, one she may have bought for him to wear on cool November days as co-captain of his soccer team, as she walked him into the courthouse. But perhaps his conscience had been warped somewhere along the way by these same parents. His mother's weeklong reaction was to keep her son from authorities and consider helping him escape punishment altogether after he admitted, minimally...
...make the tough choices for our common good without worrying about what the National Rifle Association, the American Association of Retired Persons or other special-interest groups might do. We need a $1,000 limit on campaign contributions for individuals, corporations and political-action committees. The millions in "soft money" that flow to candidates must be stopped with laws and manpower that will deal out swift and sure punishment. DOUG WITTMER Topeka, Kansas...