Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Internal Revenue Service is tough on taxpayers, but the agency can be a soft touch when it comes to misconduct by its top executives. Case in point: two former IRS officials, Frank Santella and Joseph Jech. The Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency that protects whistle blowers, filed civil charges in May against the two for harassing and demoting two IRS managers who tried to snitch on their superior, Santella, a former regional boss in the Chicago IRS office. Santella allegedly went after the informers with the help of Jech, who retired in June...
...Conant's model was the German researchuniversity, and during Lowell's later years, hedidn't hide his criticism of the tutorial system,"Riesman says. "It seemed to him British,Oxford-common-room, soft, too colloquial, tooconversational...
...which has 600 employees and ranks as the city's largest industrial employer, will close in 1992. Like other brands, Maxwell House has suffered from the decline in U.S. coffee consumption. On average, Americans now drink 1.75 cups a day, roughly half their intake in 1962. Younger consumers favor soft drinks...
...light up Europe by selling the bulbs across the Continent. In Poland, Italian automaker Fiat, in partnership with a Polish company, plans to build 1.5 million subcompacts during the next ten years. In East Germany, Coca-Cola is pouring out $140 million to turn six aging state-owned soft-drink plants into gleaming Coke bottlers...
Still, the main source of all this turbulence has been the advertising- indust ry slump -- attributed to soft markets in cigarettes and automobiles. The downturn has robbed the big consumer "books" of 3.5% of their ad pages in the first quarter of this year and underscored the glut of consumer magazines on the market. Even such industry stalwarts as Business Week, Newsweek, PEOPLE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, TIME and TV Guide have been affected, sharing in the ad-page losses for the first quarter, however healthy their circulations. (Circulation typically provides half of a magazine's revenues...