Word: softener
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...insisted a U.S. arms-control expert last week as the Carter Administration stepped up its efforts to soften opposition in Congress to a new SALT treaty. The old pact expired in October, but the U.S. and Soviet Union have agreed to continue abiding by it while negotiators in Geneva bargain on a SALT II treaty...
...Leonardos in hushed auction rooms are gone. Today's collectors are apt to be middle-class?and many buy on the installment plan. Few of them can afford to furnish a room completely in one period, so they buy an Amish quilt or a mellowed English highboy to soften the lines of their contemporary apartments...
Whatever the merits of the suit, it appears that the Carter administration has taken this opportunity to soften its support of the original law. Andrus now maintains that "a statement should be prepared whether required by the law or not. For that reason, we will not appeal the Fresno decision." And during his recent trip to the Rockies Vice President Walter Mondale told the recalcitrant landowners that Carter will ask Congress to approve a sliding scale of acreage limitations based on the type of land and the crops grown on it. However Mondale did not specify to what extent...
...number of issues; his on-again, off-again proposals for tax rebates and "reform," for example, have eroded business confidence. Both the Panama Canal treaty and the SALT talks have inched fitfully along under previous Administrations; Carter has pushed them hard but has sometimes acted prematurely, failing to soften up opponents in Congress-or the Kremlin...
...Smart move," said a faculty member. "Instead of importing some managerial type, they got a humanist to soften the blow." The humanist in question is A. (for Angelo) Bartlett Giamatti, 39, a Yale professor of Renaissance literature, who last week was named 19th president of the university after a nine-month search almost as much talked about as David O. Selznick's pursuit of the perfect Scarlett O'Hara. The blow that he will have to soften is a painful but inevitable cutback on spending...