Word: softer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While these are clearly not the Foo Fighters of old, the faithful will not be disappointed. You can hear the veins popping out on Grohl's neck in "Breakout" while "Next Year" floats along with the same sweetness the Foos' softer moments have always pulled off with a child-like sincerity. However, on There is Nothing Left to Lose, Grohl and company succeed in filling in the chasm between the two wildly separate styles they had previously mined for hits...
...Bush's "compassionate conservatism." But Falwell and Bush both believe employers should be able to fire people just for being gay. Neither wants gays to be able to marry or adopt children. And Falwell, at least, believes sincerely that gays can change into straights. Indeed, he hopes his softer words will allow that message to meet less resistance in the gay community. Other religious conservatives, like Robert Knight of the Family Research Council, said last week they won't even meet publicly with people like White. A few dozen picketed the Falwell summit...
...with the weather, it is very difficult to compare it to artificial turf. The relative injury risk for artificial turf vs. natural grass will be understood only when researchers can come up with different categories of natural grass that have a fixed injury profile. But I believe that eventually softer natural-grass surfaces using a low-traction species (e.g. ryegrass) will be proven to be the safest surface. DR. JOHN ORCHARD South Sydney Sports Medicine Kensington, Australia
...insurance rates may double come January if companies have to maintain larger cash reserves as mandated by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. So far, states have balked at the stricter XXX rule (for the Roman numeral), and rates have fallen dramatically. This year 25 states are mulling a softer version. If enacted, XXX will mean higher premiums or shorter-term guarantees. Even if XXX fails, locking in today's cheap rates couldn't hurt...
...contact, all the more heart-stopping. And it makes the play's final image, an image of ultimate loneliness, seem all the more sad for its inevitability. It is an image that is not easy to forget. And for the first time in the play, the blinding lights turn softer and more human. They turn the color of smoldering embers, powerful enough to light a fire on the mainstage...