Word: softer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...take the terrorist group seriously. But large, complex operations like the New York and Washington atrocities are not really al-Qaeda's trademark, not least because they require detailed planning and extensive resources to execute. What al-Qaeda has always been more notorious for is striking at smaller and softer targets, directly as well as through a network of subsidiaries it has developed globally. An al-Qaeda affiliate?Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?was probably behind the Oct. 12 Bali bombings, and it looks like another al-Qaeda franchisee was responsible for last week's events in Kenya. Security agencies worldwide need...
...governments bolster their defenses against terror, the terrorists will go after ever-softer targets. When you cannot fight your foe on the battlefield, you will hit his embassies. If they are hidden behind concrete walls, you will hit his banks. If they are protected by bullet-proof glass and armored plating, you will hit his schools, his hospitals, his resort hotels, his commercial airliners. And If the terrorists cannot board a U.S. airliner with box-cutters, they may be able to target it with surface-to-air missiles...
...Crimson (5-1, 4-0 ECAC) downed Colgate 10-0 and Cornell 8-0. Coming off road games against the other three of the top four teams in the nation, Harvard showed its dominance against the softer part of its schedule...
...bath, appliances, furniture) from brand-name manufacturers. Overstock sells lamps too, but you will find many more options at LIGHTINGUNIVERSE.COM, which organizes its wares by type (table lamps, pendants) and then subdivides by style (Art Deco/Retro, Craftsman/Mission).For gizmos, try TECHNO SCOUT.COM or BROOKSTONE.COM. Too much hardware? Make a softer statement with something from flower merchant CALYXANDCOROLLA.COM. It ships directly from growers, and the plants come in decorative ceramic pots...
...equivalent to an X or NC-17 from the U.S. movie industry. But with one big difference. The existence of an adult classification inhibited American directors; they were unwilling to buck movie studios (which demanded an R or softer rating in contracts) or movie theaters (some of which refused to play non-pornographic adult fare), and simply stopped making rough films for grownups. In Hong Kong, movie people saw the new rating not as an inhibition but as a liberation. Now they could show ... anything! (Except hard-core sex.) The Hong Kong film form, already pretty robust and raunchy, went...