Word: softener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fledgling trade embargo is likely to have little bearing on the outcome of the contra issue. The Sandinistas have already announced a trade offensive in Western Europe and Canada to soften the economic blow, which affects $168 million in U.S.-Nicaraguan commerce. Last week Ortega added a West European tour to his East bloc visit in order to lead that effort...
...Moon- related scientific conferences have tried to win prestige by signing up Nobel scholars, while a Unification-backed anti-Communist agency seeks allies among fundamentalists. Capitalizing on its ownership of the daily Washington Times and New York Tribune, the Moon movement has run junkets for hundreds of journalists to soften media hostility...
While support for guerrillas is a useful instrument of U.S. policy, it can rarely be decisive all by itself. Rather, covert action can serve to soften up a situation so that it will be more amenable to a negotiated settlement, or to direct military intervention. Sooner or later the secret agents and jungle warriors must give way to the diplomats and politicians--or to the generals...
Wanda: You don't mind arguing while I go on up to bed, do you, Ralph? I want to take a peek at my Howard Baker newspaper, set my Ronald Reagan alarm clock and get out the Eleanor Roosevelt margarine to soften overnight for tomorrow morning's unendorsed English muffins, all the while pondering your powerful arguments about Ferraro...
...risk an initiative that might offend American supporters of Israel. His miscalculation drew the expectable jeers from radical Arabs: the Libyan news agency JANA scoffed that his reception in Washington had lowered Mubarak "to his natural position as an employee of the U.S. State Department." Reagan sought to soften the blow by lavishing praise on Mubarak's peace efforts, but the Egyptian President charged in a speech to the National Press Club that Reagan was taking "an almost defeatist approach...