Word: softener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first have to get the approval of the figurehead president Jonnaissant. By 3 p.m. Friday Cedras called Carter back with (surprise!) Jonnaissant's O.K. Clinton had Lake announce a short while later that the delegation would be going to talk to "the de facto leadership of Haiti" -- a marked softening of rhetoric from his chief's talk the night before about "Cedras and his armed thugs." Talking to them even now, said senior Administration officials, is important domestically and internationally to show that they have not passed up a chance to resolve the situation peacefully out of foolish pride. Even...
Each year at Harvard brings together thousands of people and hundreds of disciplines. Almost no one leaves with the feeling that the few negative experiences outweighed the many positive. Hopefully, these general instructions will provoke a little thought or soften otherwise uncompromising positions...
...Cuban refugees who hauled themselves desperately onto Floridian shores last week told wild, hungry stories of how fellow countrymen tried to take advantage of the food shortage. They talked of condoms melted on top of pizzas and sold to the unsuspecting; of rag mops left in water to soften, then dried, cut up and served with egg on a sandwich; of apples that cost a month's wages. "We are like lambs," says Elvis Sierra Laborit, a bakery worker from Havana, who is not a rebellious man. "We will be eating grass soon." Even he realized it was time...
...several of his sibling's companies, has been charged with bribing financial regulators. He's since vanished, with police now negotiating with his attorney for his surrender. This isn't the first embarrassment for the new government of Prime Minister Berlusconi, who himself has been trying to soften his party's ultranationalist edges. In a country plagued by political and financial scandal, will this latest news tarnish the Teflon PM? "The big blow is in terms of image," says TIME Rome reporter Greg Burke. "What's the difference between Berlusconi's business and his brother's? Not much...
...shelved, the victims of a deal involving one of the thornier issues in the battle. In what was probably one of his last acts as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Dan Rostenkowski and the fictitious couple's sponsor, the Health Insurance Association of America, agreed to soften one of the planks in the Clinton plan, a concept called community rating. That piece of jargon, which refers to the averaging of health-insurance premiums across a community, has just the sort of wonkish ring that would have made Harry and Louise grimace...