Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parliament voted to rescind hefty food-price increases imposed just a day before. The economic reform drew outraged protests from Lithuania's Russians. Prunskiene, , a moderate widely admired for her ability to cool tensions with Moscow, also came under fire from ardent Lithuanian nationalists who consider her too soft on the Kremlin. The result, as liberals saw it, was a breakdown of authority tailor-made for Moscow to exploit...
Most Out-of-Tune Experiment Steven Bochco's musical series Cop Rock, with soft-shoe gumshoes and gospel jubilation in the jury box, was found guilty of being off key and sentenced to oblivion. So much for the networks' new spirit of innovation...
George Bush sits in the soft light of the Oval Office, tilted back in his chair, brow knitted, rimless glasses in his restless hands, then on his nose, then off again. He suddenly swivels, points a long forefinger at a stack of papers in the center of his neat desk. It is Amnesty International's report on Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait. He's just been asked about compromising with Saddam Hussein...
...that silence our hearing became acute. Footsteps of group members were unlike those of strangers. We discovered that bare feet on concrete floors made more sound than soft soles. As an early warning, we wedged an empty Coke can against the fire door outside my apartment. Whenever strangers entered, the Coke can cracked like a gun. Immediately we'd warn the group that strangers were on the floors...
Those who are still on the streets receive a basic level of support they once lacked. The workers are hosts of a Friday lunch program in their office. There they serve pizza and soft drinks, let the kids talk about their lives, and screen Bambi or the latest Schwarzenegger video on the office VCR. To promote AIDS prevention, they distribute Knightvision, a multicolor, action- packed comic book that tells the story of teenagers who face problems similar to those dealt with by the readers. There are also well-illustrated directions on cleaning hypodermic needles and using contraceptives...