Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the greatest strength of Professor Nye's book lies in his discussion of 'soft power,'" Smith says. "But the statistical game as to whether the U.S. is in decline in my opinion becomes a game that circles in on itself and becomes rather inconclusive...
...wobble mentally when thinking about this dispute. The idea of sociology without ideas, of a specialty without substance, has an amusing side to it. The presumption that exegesis is somehow soft in comparison to the rigorous and ruthless practice of the inhabitatants of William James is delightful. But it is wrong, even silly, to believe that exegesis is soft: have my letter-writing colleagues--excuse me if I chuckle--never come across the formidable Cowles Professor of Government Professor Judith Shklar...
...cancer rates with those in the ) unexposed population. But when the investigators tried to do this, says Dr. Hoffman, they could not reliably identify the soldiers who had received the highest doses. So instead the researchers adopted a more indirect approach, examining the incidence of six different cancers, including soft-tissue sarcoma and a kind of liver malignancy, that had been tentatively linked to herbicide exposure. Since the CDC settled for an indirect study, many veterans believe the results are of questionable value...
Survivors of a genocidal war, Cambodians carry traumatic psychological burdens. Sometimes it seems as if the war has quite literally followed them across the sea. In the municipal cemetery in Stockton, Calif., a few graves are marked by odd, poignant gifts: plastic dolls, balloons, soft-drink cans, plates of fruit, piles of pennies. They are the offerings of bereaved Cambodian parents to the spirits of four children who were murdered in last year's rampage by a mentally deranged drifter at the city's Cleveland elementary school. Though Stockton police maintain that the episode was not racially motivated, the Indochinese...
...year. Not for free, of course. But the income to the name supplier is a cost to the name buyer, so from the general ideological perspective, it's a wash. And this might go on for three years before the computers figure out that you're not the soft touch they took you for. That's 90 more letters at 20 cents each (not counting name-rental costs), or $18. By sending in $25, you have cost groups to which you are generally sympathetic something like $22 ($18 plus $4) -- on top of the $26 they spent finding...