Word: softer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assailing big wage boosts, was ordered to shut up. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall told an A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council meeting in Chicago that henceforth any Administration comments on labor negotiations will be coordinated by a five-man committee on which Bosworth will have only one voice. Translation: less, and softer, jawboning. As a substitute, Marshall is talking up Government-labor-management committees that would study ways of taming costs and prices in specific industries...
...House aides had privately suggested that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had lied to the President. Washington's allies were wondering just who was speaking for the Administration. Was it National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who seemed willing to match the Soviets decibel for decibel? Or was it softer-spoken Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, ever the conciliator? Unmistakably, it was time for Carter himself to speak up and clear...
...John Clifford, director of the Los Angeles Ballet company, knew the young Gelsey and was not entirely charmed. "Gelsey was born mad at the world," he says. "She was born ready to kill." Former Dancer Meg Gordon, one of Gelsey's few close friends, remembers the same thing in softer focus: "Even when we were little, her mother used to joke about it, saying, 'You must have come out of your mother's womb marching...
...friends in tow. He also found the retreat an ideal locale for some Viet Nam War jawboning with skeptics like Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Recalls L.B.J. Aide Jack Valenti: "It was a frosty meeting, but they parted friends. There's something about Camp David that makes you feel softer...
This year a new, softer ball has been adopted which is more like the ball used in international competition. The softer ball puts more of a premium on stamina, and the squash team is experimenting with different ways of practicing. "To keep up you must be able to run forever as well as to play intelligently," Fish said...