Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dole's sponsorship of an anti-gay-marriage bill is just another way of saying to Bill Clinton, "You're soft on gays," to which Clinton, in announcing his willingness to sign the bill, replied in effect: "Not if it costs me any votes in the center of the electorate...
...Kerrey's first goals was to transform the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from a political backwater to a one-stop shop for Democratic candidates. To that end, he reversed the committee's ban on soft money, the unrestricted kinds of contributions. Hell, if you're going to fight, you need all the weapons at your disposal. When he took over, there was only one person regularly doing press relations; now there are six. He hired a full-time cartoonist who creates at least one political gibe a day, faxed to thousands of newspapers around the country. And Kerrey insisted...
...Soft. That word may be the root of Shimon Peres' galling defeat. Many voters mistrusted his New Middle East as just the feel-good visions of a naif. His attempt to buttress his security credentials by ordering a callous 17-day bombardment of Lebanon that killed as many as 200 civilians alienated many more Israeli-Arab voters than it earned him Jewish ones. Leah Rabin, wife of the Prime Minister slain by a right-wing extremist last November, criticized Peres' high-minded refusal to exploit the assassination for electoral advantage. He never responded in kind to Likud's pointed, simplistic...
Strangers cannot be found on the Playboy channel--you will find it instead on HBO, one of more than half a dozen or so "adult" anthology series offering soft-core sexual adventure that have been appearing late at night on the various paycable networks. Of course, the ability to show bare female nipples--and to get endless mileage out of low-budget R-rated movies--has been one of the prime attractions of pay cable ever since its birth in the 1970s. But it wasn't until just a few years ago that programmers began rolling out their own regularly...
...above it. Most of all they were united by their ambition. For both, success wasn't everything, it was the only thing. They both valued opposition research before it was fashionable and were not at all squeamish about using money or dirty tricks to win votes. Both had a soft spot for Senator Joseph McCarthy. Both were wary of intellectuals and privately looked down on liberals as namby-pamby hypocrites...