Word: soft
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...Portland, Ore., the organizing committee of Earth Day is cosponsoring local festivities with "primary resource extractors" such as timber and mining companies. In return for the companies' sponsorship, the committee has agreed to soft-pedal the environmental issue most important to the Pacific Northwest--resource extraction. In a final irony, Portland's Earth Day Fair will be held at the headquarters of PG&E, the owner of the nearby Trojan Nuclear Power Plant...
...serious $3 billion. In the largest deal ever struck with an American company, the Soviets will trade ships and spirits for expanded Pepsi production. The complex barter system was necessary because the ruble is not readily convertible to Western currency. PepsiCo, which currently produces 40 million cases of soft drinks in the U.S.S.R. each year, will more than double its number of bottling plants in the Soviet Union, from 24 to 50. The expansion will be financed by shipments of Stolichnaya vodka over the next ten years and the sale or lease of at least ten Soviet-built freighters...
Something about this demure painting makes my eyes linger upon its soft brushstrokes, looking but not knowing exactly what I hope to find. There is something that makes this scene curiously familiar. I slowly realize that this painting is not simply about one girl. It is a beautiful work about hushed moments in the early morning, about indulging in solitude...
...oppose the death penalty not because I am soft on crime, but because I am strong for justice," Murphy said...
Common Cause has long criticized the system of PAC contributions as thinly-veiled influence purchasing by private interests. Common Cause favors strict limits on PAC donations, restrictions on campaign spending, alternative campaign funding resources and an end to the "soft" money system in which political organizations not limited in the donations they receive can give candidates indirect political help...