Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buddy Roemer was seated at his desk in the Louisiana Governor's mansion last Thursday afternoon, the same lonely desk he would return to late that night. "If you're a Governor, or ever dreamed to be, this will be your most difficult decision," he said in a soft yet intense voice. "It won't be balancing the budget, it won't be paying for judges, it won't be taxes, it won't be how to protect the environment. All those are important. But the most difficult will be the decision to take a single human being's life...
...major source of the pollution is the relentless burning of soft, brown high-sulfur coal, called lignite, which is the basic fuel of the East bloc. On cold winter days in Leipzig, the yellow-brown smog emitted by coal-fired power plants is so thick that drivers are forced to turn on their headlights during the day. In the triangle comprising southern Poland and northern Czechoslovakia, which is covered by a permanent cloud of emissions from factories and power plants, residents complain that the air is so bad that washed clothes turn dirty before they can dry on the line...
...High School by teammate Kenny Anderson, who starred in the NCAA tournament with Georgia Tech this year, James chose Harvard over Stanford and Duke for the opportunity to become a team's star immediately as a freshman. And a star he has been since day one, but getting the soft-spoken North House resident to discuss his personal accomplishments is a daunting task...
...violence and semiautomatic assault rifles have spread across the nation, an increasing number of police departments have equipped their officers with bulletproof vests. Now drug dealers are following the lead. Over the past few years, police in Washington and other cities have noticed an upsurge in hoodlums clad in "soft body armor" capable of stopping a shot from a .357 Magnum, to say nothing of less powerful police sidearms...
Some legislators accused Bush of going soft on Japan. Senate Democrat Lloyd Bentsen called the decision a "serious mistake" that could "poison the well," meaning Congress might be less likely to approve the Administration's future trade agreements with Eastern Europe and new rules being negotiated in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. House majority leader Richard Gephardt was just as opposed: "At the very moment when we're beginning to see signs of tangible progress, the Administration seems to be saying it's time to back up and back...