Word: softens
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...anxiety to soften that bleak mes sage, Urban Cowboy tries to create a structure and an optimistic mood in a tale about people whose existences have nei ther structure nor much hope. What could have been a hard crust of contemporary life has become a soggy piece of chain-store white bread...
...vital government services, such as education and police and fire protection. Similar gloomy prophecies proved spectacularly wrong after Proposition 13 passed in 1978. But the state had a $5 billion surplus then, most of which it made available to the city and county governments dependent on property taxes to soften the impact of Proposition 13. Now the state's surplus is down to about $2.6 billion. Opponents of Proposition 9 argue that by slashing income tax revenues $4.9 billion next fiscal year, the measure would wipe out the surplus altogether and leave the state unable to continue bailing...
...shipping empress; and Sergei Kauzov, 40, her third husband and sometime Soviet her third husband and sometime Soviet shipping functionary; on the grounds of irreconcilable differences; after 21 months of marriage; in Switzerland. "They did not part in anger," one Swiss lawyer reported; a multimillion-dollar settlement reportedly helped soften the blow for Kauzov...
...passage. It reached court for the first time last week. Both sides vow to keep fighting no matter what the outcome at the first judicial level. "I have felt for a long time that legislation would probably not survive the decade. What we are trying to do is soften the blow," Duehay says. "We can slow the pace of that technological change, but the direction of that change is inevitable," he adds...
...first erupted in early November, the allies did much of what Washington asked them to do. They joined in condemnations of the militants, acted as secret mediators with Tehran and voted in the U.N. Security Council for sanctions against Iran. Everyone was also in step when Washington decided to soften its policy toward Iran in the hopes of bolstering relatively moderate Iranian leaders like President Abolhassan Banisadr...