Word: soft
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Warren, 59, is exceedingly polite. She has strong opinions, but she often expresses them in a whisper-soft voice. She tends to say "Does that make sense?" in her Oklahoma drawl right after she finishes answering a question. During the hearing, which was focused on the federal bailout program's effect on corporate and commercial real estate lending, Warren gingerly tapped her gavel from the dais. "The hearing of the Congressional Oversight Panel will now come to order," she said a bit hesitantly. (See three questions about TARP for Warren's panel...
...various media, which mostly belong to the malicious and evil Zionists," I decided it was time to leave. Reporting Iran over the past week has been a dangerous enterprise for everyone, but I knew that as a dual-national on freelance assignment for TIME, I was a particularly soft target. Soon after, other journalists were expelled or detained, including a reporter for Newsweek...
...Mousavi seemed less pretentious. On the day before the election, Nahid and I interviewed him in a building he had designed, part of an art school and gallery complex in central Tehran. He seemed an exceedingly gentle man, soft-spoken to a fault - whisper-spoken, in fact. His most emphatic moment came when we asked about Ahmadinejad's attack on his wife. "I think he went beyond our societal norms, and that is why he created a current against himself," Mousavi said. "In our country, they don't insult a man's wife [to] his face. It is also...
...Delhi. A mooted gas pipeline, running from Iran's fields through Afghanistan and into Pakistan and India, is a massive project that appeals to all parties involved. Conversation in Yekaterinburg will surely include the need to shore up the region's economies - China has already promised a $10 billion soft loan to its SCO allies, including Russia, which has been hit particularly hard by the fallout of the world's financial crisis. Few will raise thornier questions of political reform. After all, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, can hardly hold the moral high ground...
...also declared in 2005 that there must be a timeline for withdrawing all U.S. military bases in Central Asia, a clear sign of Beijing and Moscow's intent to limit U.S. influence. The organization convened most recently this week in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where China proffered a $10 billion soft loan to tithe over the region's ailing economies and all spoke of enhanced political and economic cooperation. "Russia and China are both interested in maintaining the status quo," says Sean Roberts, a Central Asia expert at George Washington University. See pictures of Chinese investment in Africa...