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...buyers are having second thoughts about buying another one, or they are trading the pickups in for mid-sized and even small cars, he says. If the economy continues to slow, even the commercial business, which is closely tied to the construction and housing market, is also likely to soften, Pipas acknowledges...
...Social etiquette is apparently just too much work to be bothered with. Saying "no" artfully is old school. Using a little humor to soften the moment is pass?. Expressing a little empathy is too time-consuming...
...Hamas are likely to be behind the next spectacular that will top 9/11. They are not, and pretending that they are costs the U.S. credibility, risks driving terrorist groups that aren't allied into alliance and obscures the real issues at hand in the Middle East: How do you soften up militants who vehemently oppose Israel's existence? What should the U.S. put on the line for Israel? And does it make sense for Washington to engage in boxing by surrogate with Tehran...
...Democratic officials are trying to soften the blow by giving South Carolina, if it wins the No. 4 spot, the week to itself, rather than sharing the primary day with more than a half-dozen other states, as it did in 2004. That's not convincing many. "South Carolina had become the make-or-break place for people who had survived the first hurdles," says Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. "So anything that gets inserted in between is not good news...
...Glaeser called the article “a potent piece of hate creation.” And the University’s general counsel, Robert W. Iuliano ’83, wrote to Institutional Investor editors protesting the story’s portrayal of Summers.But those protests did not soften the blow that McClintick’s article dealt to Summers’ presidency.“It seems to me that the II piece was quite important in getting people in the Harvard community to see the whole story whole,” writes journalist David Warsh...