Word: softener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he could hardly bear facing the morning headlines. Said he: "It's awful over here. Just awful." Carter met with Kirbo, and later with top aides in the White House, and it was quickly agreed and announced to the press that Carter was changing tactics and would soften his attacks. Said Press Secretary Jody Powell: "We'll try to campaign in such a way that does not allow anyone to focus on the rhetoric rather than on the substance, or on how something is said rather than what is said...
...Result: four to six miles more on a gallon of gas. At least that is the claim of George Goiri, 48, an Ontario, Ore., storekeeper, who began attaching magnets to his 1978 Mark V and 1980 Ford pickup. He had wondered what effect magnets, which can be used to soften water by altering the molecules, would have on gasoline...
...seldom visible, travel is more freely allowed than elsewhere in the East bloc. János Kádár's government has no peer in public relations among its Eastern European friends; a recent round of price hikes was announced a year ahead of time to soften the reaction. An economic plan put into effect last year looks suspiciously like capitalism, with financial incentives and broad leeway for managers to hire, fire and set production goals. The government also winks at a booming underground economy. Although his economic growth record was lowest in the region last year...
...rose 1.7% or at a yearly rate of 22.4%. But by the beginning of 1980, consumer spending was slowing down, and when the Federal Reserve Board tightened credit in March, the public put away its plastic. As a consequence, the economy fell hard. Retail sales, which had started to soften in January, plummeted for the next four months by $4.9 billion. In the second quarter of the year, the G.N.P. declined at a startling 9.1% annual rate...
...Bobby Baker scandal, the relationship between the Johnsons' business interests and the FCC and the Tonkin Gulf deception lets L.B.J. off the hook. Miller also fails to reflect strongly enough the extent of the damage caused by Johnson's Viet Nam policy. Eulogistic gloss tends to soften some of the harder truths. Perhaps this is the nature of oral biography. At one point the author notes that "memory is a gentleman." True. But when memory serves legend more than history, it becomes a gentleman's gentleman. -By R.Z. Sheppard