Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politics. He needs to make good on his 11th-hour promise to fix the system, partly because he knows the Republicans will dangle John Huang in his face until he can get it done. But Clinton will first have to persuade his own party to break its addiction to soft money, the large contributions from fat cats that go to "party-building" activities. It is a measure of Clinton's lack of seriousness about reform that he simply informed his allies on Capitol Hill about his latest proposal two weeks ago. "We weren't consulted," said a Democratic official, "just...
...Washington lobbyists complain that Democratic fund raisers were resorting to daily cold calls to donors through last week, even telephoning corporate check writers at home. It seemed to be working: in the first 16 days of October, the D.N.C. brought in $10.5 million, nearly half of that in large, soft-money contributions...
...Dole's campaign co-chairman, who, U.S. officials told TIME, recently held hostage the foreign aid of the African nation of Zimbabwe at the behest of American International Group, an insurance giant that is a major donor to the G.O.P. Since 1990, AIG has given almost $300,000 in "soft money" to Republican Party committees, including $178,000 in this election cycle. An AIG subsidiary, Unity Insurance Co., is the only U.S.-based financial-services firm in Zimbabwe. Since 1987 that country has been demanding that foreign-owned financial companies draft plans to sell 51% of their assets to Zimbabweans...
...Commonwealth of Virginia did. It decided on Joseph Patrick Payne, a soft-spoken, 40-year-old eighth-grade dropout who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 7. Yet Payne, while hardly a model citizen, may be innocent of this murder: his attorney has a stack of affidavits maintaining that the crime was committed by the man who became the state's star witness against Payne, as well as a signed document in which that witness confesses to framing him. Why, then, is Joe Payne still facing execution? "That's got me baffled," he admits...
Edmonds, a soft-spoken man, downplays such praise: "A genius is Steve Wonder. A genius is Prince. Those kind of artists, they have no choice. They have to write. I'm just a song man." He is that: his easygoing new CD, The Day, contains the most restrained, respectable work he's done as a solo performer...