Word: soft
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...number of ways, including petering out. Quebeckers may not want to risk a leap into the dark of independence during a recession. (Even a Quebecois economist admits that sovereignty would involve transitional costs of as much as 10% of Quebec's GDP -- a prospect that separatist politicians carefully soft-pedal.) It is possible, finally, that some deal will be struck either by Mulroney or even by western politicians willing to give Quebec its head in return for a redesigned federal government...
Into this rhetorical arena comes Susan Faludi, 32, a soft-spoken, sharp- penned, Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter for the Wall Street Journal who spent four years writing Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, published by Crown in October. In 552 crowded pages, Faludi constructs a thesis out of alarming though sometimes selective use of statistics bound together with ideological glue, designed to explain why many women turned against feminism in the 1980s. Not only has her book become an unexpected best seller; it has also become a staple topic on the op-ed pages, one of those landmark books that...
...Kerrey had the right cast, but he needs better writers. Speaking at Atlanta's Spelman College, surrounded by uniformed veterans (hint, hint), he declared that if Clinton got the nomination, Bush would open him up like a soft peanut. He later corrected himself, substituting a boiled peanut, only to seem stuck on an unfamiliar Southernism...
...Oxford University graduate also criticizedthe "hypocrisy" behind the "soft conservative"position of the politically correct...
...soft conservative individual willprivately accept homosexuals at a party but willwrite or say something hostile in public just sopeople won't get the wrong idea," Sullivan said...