Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prince of pugilism, Mike Tyson, was 23 years old and until that fateful night had enjoyed a stranglehold on his opposition. Soft-drink manufacturers coveted his endorsement and no right-minded sports fan would dare forecast an end to his reign. But after 10 rounds of padded combat, the Popeye of pop culture had fallen. The thud was heard round the world, or at least in that not-insignificant fraction which has heard of Mike Tyson...
...director William Casey, whose 1966 congressional campaign Safire managed. Critical columns led to angry phone calls and a shouting match at a party -- all of which Safire recounted in the Times. But Sophia Casey, the CIA director's widow, recalls that her husband to the end "still had a soft spot for Bill Safire...
...gloomy signals, many U.S. business leaders think that the economy's so-called soft landing has already occurred and that the economy will soon be ready for takeoff again. A survey of executives published last week by Dun & Bradstreet concluded that "business optimism has reached a turning point and businesses are regathering strength for the second half of 1990." Consumers are not so sure. Their cutback in spending during the October-December quarter was largely responsible for the economy's poor performance...
...jeans, sneakers and a black T shirt, Blades looks younger than his 41 years as he comes to the door of the New York City apartment he owns with his wife of three years, American actress Lisa Blades. "I'm just cleaning up a little," he explains. Courteous and soft-spoken, Blades sweeps his living-room floor while he speaks, his lightly accented speech peppered with Spanish words and American slang. When a topic stirs him, Blades can become animated and emphatic, pacing, pointing, his brown eyes bright with conviction...
...could accuse Pope John Paul II of being soft on celibacy. The Roman Pontiff frowns upon even hypothetical discussions about relaxing the church's centuries-old ban on married priests. Yet this is the same Pope who in 1980 approved an experiment in which 43 married men have become Roman Catholic priests in the U.S. The most recent was ordained in New York just last week. (Some 20 married converts have become priests elsewhere in the West since Pope Pius XII allowed the first such dispensation in 1951.) Although church officials have sought to avoid publicity about the unusual American...