Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was an unspoken but unmistakable message from Clinton to both East Asian nations and Republican critics: See, I am not soft on China. I know its military buildup is worrying neighbors that need us to stay there as a counterweight. And we can't take a firm line with China or North Korea without cementing our Japanese alliance. Trade? Clinton mentioned it only to claim credit for some encouraging trends. U.S. exports to Japan are up 85% in sectors such as cellular phones, where the Administration applied pressure. But the overall increase of 35% owes much to economic forces...
...grain supplies drop and prices rise. "What this may mean for American consumers," says TIME's Tom Curry, "Is that, even though the grain itself is only 18 cents of the $3.39 retail price they pay for corn flakes, they may soon find themselves paying more for chicken, pork, soft drinks (made with high fructose corn syrup), pastries, vitamins (such as Vitamin E made from soybean oil), ethanol, and other products...
...while when he and Ted were at college. Co-workers describe a popular teacher who cared greatly for his students and nothing for material things. If he ever had a proper winter coat, no one seems to have seen it. When guests came to his apartment, he served them soft drinks in jelly jars. But unlike Ted, David demonstrated a gift for human contact. Though not much of an athlete, he joined the other high school faculty for Thursday-night basketball games. "You could talk to Dave about anything," says Jim West, a junior high math teacher. "We used...
...Quaker Oats, Snapple soft drinks have been proving hard to swallow. Quaker paid $1.7 billion for Snapple in 1994, only to watch the acquisition lose $100 million in 1995. Quaker's stock has fallen from $37.50 to $33 in the past year, even as the market bubbled. So CEO Bill Smithburg is under pressure to get profits flowing again at the $6.3 billion company. The board even canceled his bonus. Quaker's Gatorade sports drink is No. 1 in its category. But the company has more modest aims for Snapple, which has less than 5% of the soft-drink market...
...seems that in the land of artifice, only a chump would accept sorrow at face value. It's soft to let the dead rest in peace for a few days and naive not to administer the equivalent of a Breathalyzer for grief. The President often exhibits an overabundance of emotion. But in any other place, a person would be granted a presumption of sincerity if a dear friend and indispensable colleague had finally met a mountain he couldn't move...