Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...planted around V.I. Lenin's bust. Among the high-rise concrete blocks of the Karl Marx Quarter, comrades are hawking the latest edition of the Communist Party newspaper. Plastered along Avenue Yury Gagarin, Nelson Mandela Street and Avenue Salvador Allende, posters sport a red hammer and sickle and a soft- sell slogan: A JOB, JUST TO SURVIVE...
Alexander is frustrated no longer. He is now the point man for George Bush's educational goals, including the idea of school Choice, and he is using his soft-spoken salesmanship to market them to Congress and the American public. The role is the most challenging yet for the man named by Bush as Secretary of Education last December, whose mild and courteous demeanor masks a high-octane ambition. His goal is to transform the Department of Education, which Ronald Reagan once pledged to abolish, from a backwater operation in the shadow of the Air and Space Museum into...
...right-wing groups, was intended to bolster Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas' confirmation chances by pointing the finger at three liberal Democrats who seemed likely to oppose him. Not coincidentally, the ad was produced by the same people who launched the 1988 Willie Horton spot that branded Michael Dukakis soft on crime but left George Bush open to charges of racism. Anxious not to be associated with such negative campaigning this time around, Bush quickly labeled the attacks on the Senators "counterproductive." Thomas pronounced them "vicious." His chief Senate supporter, Missouri Republican John Danforth, called them "sleazy" and "scurrilous...
Wearing a soft yellow jacket with dark blue pants, Rudenstine recalled his first days as a Princeton undergraduate, when he often wondered whether he had made a mistake in deciding to attend college...
...empty fraud. In the months preceding the coup and collapse there were signs that top party bosses, sensing the end was near, had begun looting the treasury. The newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported a series of shady real estate deals involving top party officials and attempts to convert soft ruble accounts into hard currency. Just before the party lost control of the Moscow City Council, for example, the Communist chairman, Valeri Saikin, transferred 33 city buildings to the party free of charge. Top party leaders bought their palatial government-owned country houses for ludicrously low prices. Former Politburo member Alexandra Biryukova...