Word: smoothed
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...agriculture departments of California Governor Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon. After a six-year stint as head of the American Meat Institute, he returned to the USDA as Deputy Secretary during Reagan's first term as President. In Washington he has earned a reputation as a smooth operator who can handle lobbyists, bureaucrats and even Congressmen, with a cool head. Thus it was no surprise last week when the President nominated Lyng to succeed John Block as Secretary of Agriculture. As farmers struggle with depressed prices and exorbitant interest rates, the new Secretary will have his work...
...technology, he says, stems from "the thought that you can capture a human image and develop the software to manipulate its parts." Weintraub captures the image of a new patient with his camera, stores a digitized record of it in his computer and then uses his stylus to smooth over wrinkles and remove unsightly bumps. Invoking a software program developed with the help of Artist Nancy Burson for electronically "aging" photographs of missing children, he may even stretch or shrink portions of the face. Ali, for one, was enthralled and reassured by the computer wizardry, and decided on the spot...
...University has failed in its attempt to bring back the former Celtic Department chairman who last spring unexpectedly returned to Ireland after just 10 months at Harvard, temporarily stalling what officials had hoped would be a smooth period of rebuilding for the tiny department...
...real issue is the way the University has gone about setting up this program, and their response to our allegations of serious structural flaws in the program. Specifically, the program was conceived and planned for six months without input of Black South Africans. That Steiner now claims he can smooth over any problems during his upcoming visit to South Africa is to show a basic lack of respect and contempt for the people he is supposedly trying to help...
...tried to tune them out while listening to Reagan. His speech was beautiful. Really. And very smooth. He talked about Francis Drake. And the American spirit. He acted disturbed and uniquely wounded, pronounced all the names of the astronauts perfectly, as if he had practiced them, as if he had never heard them, as if they were a list of items to be noted and crossed off, casually perhaps, with a soft-lead pencil...