Word: softener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Field & Stream) dipped 30% last year, to $41 million; and profits in the records division were down about 30%, to $87 million. Results have been better so far in 1986, but at the end of July, CBS said television advertising revenues for the second half of the year would soften because of the increasingly competitive climate...
Unfortunately, the presence of such people cannot soften the impact of another harsh lesson one learns on an assembly line. Manual labor is not edifying, and it does not bring one closer to God or nature. It destroys the mind...
...greeted with skepticism by attorneys representing the Bhopal victims, whose claims of more than $350 million for damages are to be filed in an Indian court later this month. Said Stanley Chesley, one of three court-appointed lawyers representing the plaintiffs in the U.S.: "The company is trying to soften hostility in India by pointing the finger at someone else...
...just as a good man, once dead, becomes a saint, so a nice place, once quit, becomes an Eden. As the years slide by, the places we have visited are steadily pushed back to an enchanted distance, and memory, the mind's great cosmetician, begins to remove wrinkles, soften edges, touch up the past in a golden glow. The 26-hour bus trip, the simultaneous swarm of hucksters and mosquitoes, the revolutions of the stomach are all forgotten or, better yet, transfigured into the unforgettable adventures with which we can impress our friends. Paradise's loss is our gain. Small...
What made Chun soften his position? One factor may have been the fall last week of Ferdinand Marcos. At the luncheon, Chun was reported to have said that he did not want South Korea to become a "second Philippines." The opposition has also watched events in Manila. Indeed, Kim Dae Jung and his wife were acquainted with Philippine President Corazon Aquino and her late husband Benigno Aquino when all four were in exile in the U.S. in the early 1980s. Said Kim: "Next it is Korea's turn...