Word: softener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Really, you just can't have sympathy with that kind of thing." Carie seemed to be trying to explain, to soften the harshness. "This is the big time--well..." She paused and looked at Jackie for confirmation. "Yeah, this is the big time, and you have to know what you're doing. You either make it or you break...
Many already have, and that is the problem as the U.S. sees it. So far, seven Rio signators have ignored the treaty in order to maintain or establish diplomatic relations with Cuba, including, most recently, Venezuela and Colombia. Although the U.S. has no plans to soften soon its own stance on Cuba, it is accepting the inevitable. It now prefers that the OAS formally end the ban rather than doing it de facto...
...developed wells brought in by major oil companies would be sold at a fixed price of up to 750 per thousand cu. ft. Both the White House and the Senate Democrats would hold the price of "old" gas from wells already in production at roughly its present level to soften the economic impact of the higher new gas prices. The White House, however, has called for decontrol of all new gas, allowing the price to rise to whatever the market will bear. Senate Commerce Committee experts predict that that approach would raise the fuel bill of the average U.S. family...
...billion-the largest net profit ever reported by any industrial company. But Exxon's net in the first quarter of 1975 slipped 11% below the same period a year earlier, when oil prices were still rising; some Wall Street analysts expect company profits to soften even more...
...from the administration. It is doubtful that a simple resumption of aid--if the House also approves this--will promote any gestures of good will towards the Greek Cypriots or the United States, since the threat on an embargo never induced any compromises. But the Turks might consent to soften their position on Cyprus if that was made firm precondition to the sale of arms...