This kid-glove treatment means a wine that costs more than merlot, but a lot less than Burgundy.

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It's not exactly the kid-glove treatment, but it does stand to make better the lives of millions of people.

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Melody Laila, for example, electronically lambasts the inadequate public services in her native Mumbai, as well as the kid-glove treatment of corrupt politicians in Delhi.

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Even more relevant to China's calculations than the kid-glove treatment the United States is giving China's new-found "strategic partner" - Russia - however, is the message being sent by the administration when Mr. Clinton promises to "do whatever it takes" to secure congressional approval of permanent trading status for China.

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It fell to Armitage to try to overturn or undermine those policies Powell opposed, in the interagency process, through leaks to the press (whose appreciation has been reflected in generally kid-glove treatment of the revelation of his role in the Plame affair), via back-channels with foreign governments and, not least, through attacks on his bureaucratic rivals.

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Before he was a three-time Golden Glove winner, Mark was a 21-year-old kid fresh out of Georgia Tech.

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