Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life to a false resume.) Some were the necessary dissemblings imposed by a society too jittery or bigoted to countenance his homosexuality. And some were merely the blithe fabrications native to the creative temperament; like many writers, Williams often treated the hard facts of his life as so much soft raw material, always amenable to a resourceful reshaping...
...real question, FlorCruz says, is why the government bothers to go through the formalities of a trial: "Some analysts see it as a concession to the hardliners who have complained that the government has been too "soft" toward dissidents like Wei. Others say that Beijing has decided that it could crack down on dissidents and get away with it, in spite of anticipated protests and diplomatic pressure from Western countries like the U.S. Still others view it as Beijing's attempt to publicly discredit Wei by depicting him, to the local and international audience, as a despicable criminal, to counter...
...They became what they replaced.'' Cronk was never a Perot voter, but he voices the big complaint of Perot's followers. For them, Republicans have not gone far enough on term limits and campaign-finance reform. Then again, neither has Clinton, so his support among those voters will be soft. In the Election Monitor, 20% of voters say they still support Perot, which is close to the 19% of the vote...
Harvard won as a team, and though its schedule was viewed as being on soft side by NCAA members, the Crimson still won 14 games--the third highest in school history...
Jordan, a shy, soft-spoken man, still seems uncomfortable on the stump even after four years in office. But not Brown ("Slick Willie," as Jordan calls him), who leads all the candidates in endorsements--the major unions, many of the Democratic clubs ("Machine," Achtenberg says dismissively) and a healthy collection of ethnic organizations. Achtenberg, meanwhile, has issued a flood of position papers on everything from immigration to the environment. Her most inventive proposal: a council of neighborhoods that would give the city's diverse residents a voice in city hall...