Word: softener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most expensive primary in Philadelphia's history. Rizzo plans to raise $1.5 million; Goode $1 million. Rizzo has hired New York Consultant David Sawyer, who handled Jane Byrne's media campaign. Like the defeated Chicago mayor, Rizzo has an abrasive public image that Sawyer is trying to soften. "There is no new Frank Rizzo," says the ex-mayor. "Just a wiser Frank Rizzo, a man who has learned a lot since being out of office...
...Presbyterian division in 1861 was an inevitable result of the Civil War, which also split other denominations, notably the Methodists and Baptists. Over the decades, the Southern church has been more conservative than the Northern, particularly on social issues, but in recent years those differences have begun to soften. The Rev. J. Randolph Taylor of Charlotte, N.C., Southern co-chairman of the joint committee that wrote the reunion plan, says that Presbyterianism was "a family that was split mainly by culture, politics and war. Slowly we've come to realize that we need each other...
...down to 6.3%, the lowest in ten years. She continues to promise that she will "put the 'Great' back in Britain." Thatcher has taken on the powerful trade unions and thus far has not come a cropper. At the same time, she has staunchly resisted industry's pleas to soften her austere monetarism. She has also been lucky. The Labor Party opposition is a shambles, split by left-right fratricide, and the Social Democratic Party's momentum has faded as fractious Britain united behind its resolute leader in the Falklands...
Paradoxically, the new Soviet leader has been widely described in the U.S. and European press as a liberal and an intellectual with pro-Western leanings. Since Andropov (pronounced an-dro-pof) left the KGB last May, this impression has been fostered assiduously by the Soviets in an effort to soften his image. A number of Soviet intellectuals in Moscow, Soviet tourists abroad and Emigres in the West have been making a point of portraying him as a cultivated man, not at all what one would imagine a top policeman to be like...
...direct use of both prostaglandins and substances that block PG formation looms as important medical therapy. PGS have been used to treat ulcers and circulatory disturbances and to soften the cervix and stimulate labor for births and abortions. Compounds that block PG formation have been used to relieve pain caused by gallstones and menstruation. In fact, the most common pain reliever of all, aspirin, produces its effect by blocking the synthesis of certain prostaglandins, a discovery made by Vane in 1971 that helped resolve the longstanding mystery of how aspirin works...