Word: softener
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...soften some of the criticism that helped kill the legislation last year, the Administration has vastly modified this session's bill. Last year's plan would have clamped a limit of 9% on the annual increase in revenues that hospitals could receive from bed patients. This time, the Administration would give the hospitals until Jan. 1, 1980, to prove that they can hold the amount of money they spend, rather than take in, to an annual increase of no more than 9.7%, plus an adjustment that would take into account some inflation factors. (Studies show that hospital revenues...
...also say the Hanoi government makes especially good use of scapegoats to soften the impact of harsh policies. Hieu describes what he termed the government's strategy for preparing the public for the nationalization of key industries. "If they want to monopolize the fish industry in Saigon, they order the fishermen not to send their fish to Saigon. The prices shoot skyhigh, and the government launches a propaganda campaign blaming the capitalist monopoly fish industry and then they take it over," Hieu says. Hieu also charged that the Hanoi government periodically publicly executes scapegoats to combat public uproar over...
...were attached to them. A net made of cables was dropped over the rock, but one of them broke. Then a helicopter replaced this cable and tried to envelop the rock in the net, so it could be slowly eased down. Fire hoses were brought to the scene to soften the ground under the rock...
After laying a carpet of artillery fire to soften Vietnamese defenses, an estimated 60,000 Chinese troops advanced in a broad surge along the jagged 480-mile border. Infantry, supported by T-59 tanks, spurted through the passes of the rugged, hilly terrain, bowled over Vietnamese outposts and fanned out in a broad, coordinated advance about six miles deep. By Hanoi's own admission, the Chinese after two days had occupied eleven towns and villages and had surrounded Dong Dang with tanks and self-propelled guns...
...wide rift that has developed between the Administration and labor, the President met at the White House with a delegation of top union leaders headed by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who has been brutally critical of the wage-price program. After the session, Meany indicated that he would soften his objections over policy, making it easier for the Administration to deal with unions...