Word: gentler
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...enforcement efforts won't be anywhere near as brutal as those that came to light during the 1997 to '98 congressional hearings, which shamed the IRS into a full-scale reorganization. A kinder, gentler agency is now focused on service to taxpayers more than on enforcement. The shift has been so total, in fact, that the consensus within the agency and among tax professionals is that the IRS has got too lax--and tax cheats have got bolder...
...accidental discovery in the 1950s of the first synthetic tranquilizer, chlorpromazine (Thorazine), ushered in a gentler age of psychopharmacology. As other feel-good pills followed--Tofranil (imipramine) for depression, Miltown and Equanil (meprobamate) for psychosis, Valium (diazepam) for severe anxiety and lithium for manias--no mental illness seemed beyond their reach. Governments began emptying mental wards on the assumption that madness could be medicated--ignoring the fact that thousands of former inmates ended up living, and suffering, in the streets...
...memoirs, planned for spring, earned a $7.1 million advance, which he plans to donate to charity. Welch, 65, turned staid GE into a dynamic, even hot business--in part by laying off 100,000 workers in the '80s, earning the nickname "Neutron Jack." He has since cultivated a gentler image; he refused to wear a jacket for this photo, saying, "I don't want to look stuck...
...album "Double Fantasy," which included several paeans to the joys that maturity was bringing, like his rueful warning to his five-year old son that "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." A lot of reviewers then bemoaned the album because of its gentler lyrical themes. As usual, Lennon had grown up before his critics. After his death, the poignancy of the lyrics assumed unbearable weight. But the lyrics were beautiful before the loss. It took the "other plans" of a deranged human for some people to get the message...
...Perhaps in an effort to present a kinder, gentler animal act, Kaleidoscape puts forth Olga Rogacheva and her trained geese. Yes, geese. There is undoubtedly a moment of wonder as the fowl take to the ring and perform a series of maneuvers. Who would have thought geese could be trained to do anything? And when you realize that they aren't really doing much, you think that there may be a reason no one has done it before. The most remarkable thing about the act was seeing Hungarian fourth-generation circus performer Istvan Toth, who stands 27 inches tall, almost...