Word: softens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is interesting about "Questions" is that the music starts to soften without mellowing as the CD continues. The first songs are ruled by hard beats, jawbreaker samples and intense bass work. For example, the title of the hard-hitting "Surprise, Surprise" is more than just creative use of a comma. It signifies the look you get on your face when you realize that the lyrics in the song don't even have to be there...
...professor Jerome L. Friedman, chair of the physics visiting committee, says he has never been pressured by the department to soften reports...
Clinton signaled that he was ready to soften his position on officially allowing gays in the military. Homosexuals should be allowed to serve, he said, as long as they keep their sexual lives private, so that the government "does not appear to be endorsing a gay life-style...
...many ways, Wynn represents the new face of gambling in America, ingratiating and scrubbed, ready to join with Reagan's "Morning in America" adman to soften resistance to what once was considered a slightly sinful indulgence. Partly because of salesmen like him, gambling is spreading so quickly and quietly across the country these days, says David Johnston, the author of Temples of Chance, that "few people realize Minnesota has more casinos than Atlantic City." The business has exploded in just over a decade, with casino revenues going from $2 billion a year in 1978 to nearly $10 billion today...
...even before his term expires on June 30. The chaotic mayoral race, with its 24 candidates, has so far failed to produce a leader who shows full promise of pulling together the city's four main constituencies: blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians. Antagonism among those groups has failed to soften in the year since the riots. According to a UCLA survey, while 88% of blacks and 76% of Latinos in Los Angeles were likely to support increases in spending to help the poor, only 61% of both whites and Asians agreed. The percentage of L.A. blacks who felt that American...