1.   At this fairly gentle jab, Gore went into full frontal whine.

2.   Clinton also took a couple of gentle jabs at Dole, who spent the day blasting the new growth figures as proof of an economic slowdown.

3.   Gates sidestepped discussing the merits of the criticisms of his company, instead taking gentle jabs at his critics and himself.

4.   Gentle jabs are OK, though.

5.   He also took a gentle jab at Gore, who has spent most of his life as a politician.

6.   Such are the gentle jabs that pass as heated rhetoric here, where the base rivalry is as muted as the late-winter landscape.