Word: softener
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...wanted to create a place for tourists to spend a week without worrying about survival or unnecessary sacrifices," he says of his $7 million retreat in the windswept Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, a six-hour drive from Punta Arenas, Chile's southernmost city. "We aim to soften the roughness of nature...
...calls were part of an effort to soften Gates' image in Washington, they didn't work. "I don't think they get it," says Republican Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, whose state received $70,000. "Microsoft is now a monopoly," he says. "But they have not adjusted to the fact that they now have to follow different rules...
There were whispers that after a White House conversation with Travolta, Clinton put pressure on Germany to soften its stance toward the Church of Scientology, of which the actor is an outspoken adherent, and that in return Travolta portrayed Stanton more sympathetically. That rumor gets a sneer from Klein ("I don't think Clinton would change policy toward Germany to get better treatment from John Travolta"), but the actor has warm memories of the chat, in which he says Clinton spoke of an old roommate who had been a Scientologist. Travolta insists his performance wasn't swayed by the President...
...rotation, VanDerveer needed to make a quick change before facing Harvard on Saturday. It was a no brainer; everyone knew what would happen. Folkl, the team's leading scorer, rebounder and blocker would be given the starting nod. Nygaard's loss would be hard, but Folkl would soften the blow...
...only hope Starr had. That, within a few hours, proved to be wrong. Last week Starr subpoenaed attorneys working for Paula Jones for notes, pleadings and depositions involving other women linked to Bill Clinton. One possible line of inquiry: Were the women asked by any agents of Clinton to soften their testimony regarding their former relationships with...