Word: soft
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...they were at risk of tumbling down. For fear of igniting civil war when he arrived in the Gaza Strip, Arafat was at first permissive toward the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, and the much smaller Islamic Jihad, the two groups most militant toward Israel. But the soft approach merely emboldened the radicals, who committed a number of deadly terrorist attacks during the last three months of 1994. A double-suicide bombing last January that killed 21 Israelis convinced Arafat that further negotiations with Israel were impossible in an atmosphere darkened by terror...
...proliferation of new competitors and discount plans. Still, says a senior congressional staff member, "the consumer is poorly represented in this process because his stake is small compared to those of the huge monied interests." He adds, "The consumer groups have worked hard on this, but they are soft voices compared to the screaming of the people for hire." The consumers, in the end, have an important opportunity for revenge. If they are angry when ballot time comes, they can always elect to disconnect...
...probe put an uncomfortable spotlight on Andreas, 77, who for the past three decades has cultivated Presidents and putative Presidents by heaping money on them. According to Common Cause, Andreas, his wife and ADM have given a total of $1.4 million in so-called soft, or unrestricted, funds to the Republican Party since 1991, as well as $759,000 to the Democrats. In return for his largese, Andreas has often seemed to reap what he has sown. For example, ADM profits handsomely from federal programs that raise U.S. sugar prices above the world level, at an estimated cost to consumers...
...with the defense: "I know, for me, when there is a camera, there is an effect," he said. Then he gave the camera crews just five minutes to pack up and leave. Thus when Smith went on trial last week for the drowning murder of her two sons, the soft whirr of cameras was replaced by a far quainter sound--the scratches and squeaks of 10 sketch artists, plying their trade with color pencils and markers...
...eight years, and part of the pleasure of following him has been to see a fellow with leading-man looks play so many variations on the upper-class twit. Last year, besides his suavely manic turn in Four Weddings, he was seen as the prim prelate in the Australian soft-core Sirens and as an hors d'oeuvre to a sexually voracious woman in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon. Now three more Grant films are in the U.S. malls: he is the lead in Nine Months and An Awfully Big Adventure and a supporting player in The Englishman Who Went...