Word: soft
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...Corporation agreed to impose a "soft cap" which will link the University's contribution to post-retirement health-care coverage with rises in health care costs, in compliance with the faculty committee's recommendations...
Republicans are also winning where it really counts--in campaign contributions. Political-action committees have been heeding G.O.P. threats of retribution by ponying up at an unprecedented rate. In the days just before and right after last year's election, Republicans outgained Democrats 3 to 1 in large "soft money" contributions. And in the first two months of this year, the Republican National Committee has already received more such funds than in all of 1993. The biggest single payoff will come next month at a dinner benefiting both the House and Senate campaign committees. Senators ranging from New York...
That's a lot of glitz for a man universally described as low key, soft-spoken and unfailingly polite. But in a crunch he can be ruthless in taking a company apart. The company he is aiming at now is the one Iacocca spent the best years of his life preserving. "I've got 47 years of good reputation at stake," says Iacocca. "I don't want to be tainted as somebody who went in there for a quick buck." Even so, the quick bucks are a good bet. It's all the rest that...
...makes it very difficult for you as a journalist to report on them," he ,said. "Either you're too hard, overcompensating or you're too soft, you don't want tospoil a 20-year friendship...
...climactic paintings of the early '60s, like Monastery, 1961, and Monsoon, 1961-62, abstractness prevails more, but there are still traces of figures within the cells of Monastery; a kind of prayer hum seems to emanate from its gray congested surface, suggesting collectivity through the soft friction of forms. Monsoon encases a memory of the nightmare raft trip, with a disjointed white calligraphy playing, slower than lightning, over the darkness behind it. Its movements seem just on the point of incoherence, as though an already indeterminate Cubist space had been subject to unbearable stress. But it doesn't fall apart...