Word: softener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with those elements and help them prevail. > In Nicaragua the Sandinistas are unquestionably oriented toward Cuba and the Soviet bloc in foreign policy and are heading toward one-party, totalitarian rule at home. But the U.S. can still work to modify that government's behavior. The Administration should immediately soften its tone, thereby giving the Sandinistas fewer pretexts to justify their militancy and repression. In addition, the U.S. should work with Western nations to aid the non-Sandinista parties and the private sector. The Sandinistas' biggest worry is that they will be shunned by the Socialist International, an association...
...course (she said), calling on her own without her boss's knowledge. (The odds were that he was standing beside her, prompting her while she talked.) It was vintage Nixon: the fear of confrontation; the indirect approach; the acute insight into my reaction; and the attempt to soften it through a preposterous charade that would get him over the first hurdle...
Samuel Rotondi added that politicians across the state should accept the general mandate of Prop 2 1/2 but soften its content. The current wording of the law prevents municipal and city governments from honoring their debts become citizens are reluctant to purchase bonds, he added...
...Congress to continue the attack on federal tuition support begun last year by tightening eligibility regulations and eliminating altogether federally guaranteed loans for graduate and professional students. The graduate loan cuts alone would affect 650,000 people nation-wide and about 5100 at the University. Chances are Congress will soften the blow somewhat this spring, as it modified Reagan's education reductions for 1982. But as tuition costs rise, anything even approaching the Administration's proposal could force hundreds of thousands of aspiring historians, physicians, lawyers and engineers to abort their plans for the future...
...much ideas as their loudmouthed idiot cousin -publicity-that helped soften the verdict. It began to seem that it was not Abbott and his admitted homicide that were on trial but, in a vague and sloppy way, the entire American criminal justice system. The jury decided that the system had just been too much for Abbott. So the verdict was manslaughter. Abbott had been acting, the jury decided, under "extreme emotional disturbance." Sentencing comes next month. A judge of Solomonic gifts might condemn Abbott and Mailer to be shackled together with molybdenum chains, inseparable ever after, like Tony Curtis...