Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson breezed through games one and two, 15-6 and 15-11, against unexpectedly soft opposition...
...calling for reform of the campaign-finance system, even demanding that his own President's fund raising be investigated by an independent counsel. Early this year he pledged to spend just $3.8 million on his re-election--$1 for every Wisconsin voter--and to turn away any Democratic Party soft money, which interest groups and corporations can donate in unlimited amounts. "I'd rather lose my Senate seat than play that game," he likes...
...told fellow party loyalists Wednesday night. "But I'm here because he believes in us." And because Feingold needs him desperately: the incumbent is currently lodged in a dead heat in his race against Republican Congressman Mark Neumann. The reason: Feingold not only limited his campaign spending and refused soft money; he also discouraged ads from advocacy groups attacking Neumann--positions consistent with the campaign-finance-reform bill he sponsored with Arizona's John McCain. Neumann, meanwhile, matched Feingold's pledge to hold down spending, but he happily allowed the G.O.P. to dump soft money into the race...
...political sandbox, Microsoft sure has come around. Mere days before the opening of Microsoft?s court battle with antitrust lawyers, the GOP?s senatorial committee pulled in a $100,000 contribution from the company, and the Republican National Committee got a $40,000 check ?- bringing the software giant?s soft-money gifts to the party to more than $400,000 in the 1997-98 election cycle. Coincidentally, about that time, 10 Republican senators signed a ?Dear Colleague? letter criticizing the Clinton administration for subjecting the software industry to ?needless regulation through overzealous enforcement of antitrust? laws. ?We must protect...
...various addicts whose lives he touches as a doctor of internal medicine are lucid, compelling and endearing. These are obviously real people, and they tell it like it is--from where they get their drugs to how they inject to how it makes them feel. Verghese shows a soft, susceptible side of human nature. Scenes in hospitals lend themselves to that. Even the most menacing convict appears frightened and insecure when lying in a hospital bed, facing a serious illness. Not one of his characters is ever portrayed as an inherently bad individual, or a non-person, whatever their past...