Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professor of History at Merton College, Oxford and cousin to the enigmatic Xan. A revolutionary cell, outraged by the injustices perpetrated by the Warden, approaches Faron to ask him to use his influence with his cousin. His mission comes to naught, but he falls gushingly in love with a soft-spoken revolutionary, and vows to help her change the world...
...conditions, however, the crystals never bond, but remain loose like a pile of poker chips. This dangerous situation commonly occurs in Colorado, where temperatures are very cold (snow crystals bond most readily close to their melting point). The shape of the crystals is important too. A layer of graupel -- soft hailstones that behave like miniature ball bearings -- substantially increases the avalanche hazard. In essence, graupel provides a high-speed conveyor belt for the layers of snow deposited on top. Another kind of trouble comes in the guise of sugar snow -- coarse grains created when water vapor freezes and refreezes...
After furiously scribbling down every change Clinton wanted, Begala and company returned to the Old Executive Office Building, where they propped Sperling up in a soft chair and covered him with all the jackets and scarves in sight. Throughout the night, the slumbering economist, who had begun to resemble Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta, would be consulted. "Hey, Gene," communications deputy David Dreyer would shout, "how much does a surcharge on millionaires pick up?" Sperling would mumble some number, and they would let him go back to sleep...
...people, which he said would satisfy his campaign promise of a 25% cut. By far the largest reduction will come at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, home of the White House drug czar, where 121 jobs will be lost. To discourage the impression that he was going soft on narcotics, Clinton elevated the post to Cabinet level...
...been sold. But don't look for many bus trips. The President took his victory lap on Air Force One last Wednesday to go to the town meeting in Detroit. It's a $181 million Boeing 747 with an office, computer center, conference room, bedroom, 85 phones, 18 televisions, soft lighting and an operating room for emergency surgery. Clinton put on the blue serge flight jacket with the presidential seal and settled in to work the phones. "It's a lot better than Air Elvis," he remarked, a reference to his campaign plane, which resembled a homeless shelter...