Word: softspoken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...utility, serving more customers (9.0 million) and producing more revenues ($2.9 billion) than any other. As the company that almost everyone living in and around the Big Apple loves to hate, it supplies more than just gas, steam and the costliest electricity in the country. Con Ed's softspoken, Wisconsin-bred chairman, Charles Luce, 60, himself says that the big firm also provides ''a tremendous catharsis for the pent-up tensions of the city. If we didn't have a Con Ed, we'd have to invent...
...many New Yorkers, that tale would have seemed only slightly more bizarre than the melodrama unfolding on their front pages and television screens last week. Rupert Murdoch ?the furry-browed, softspoken, intensely competitive Australian owner of ten major newspapers, 13 magazines and dozens of lesser publications?had no sooner established himself as the owner of the city's only afternoon paper, the Post (circ. 500,000), than he was making a surprise bid to buy control of the New York Magazine Co. New York Founding Editor Clay Felker, meanwhile, canvassed millionaires around the world for help in fighting...
There is, however, still some reason for optimism. Vance will be a softspoken Secretary of State--not a brash individualist in the style of Kissinger--and thus it appears that Carter intends to be his own man in foreign policy. Carter's campaign positions on Chile, on Southern Africa and on an open foreign policy, along with Vance's stated intention to work closely with Congress, may mean that the course of American foreign policy will take a progressive turn, the unfortunate symbolic significance of the Vance appointment notwithstanding...
...charged that he was trying to be all things to all people, tailoring his positions to suit his audiences. There was mistrust, some ridicule of his strong religious note and his self- righteousness. Yet there was also obviously some appeal in the basic "trust me" approach adopted by the softspoken peanut farmer from Plains...
...bartender who lived in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, made his way to Harvard, became one of the nation's leading urbanologists, served four Presidents, and fulminated against the Arabs and the Third World as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Democrat Moynihan won over softspoken, engaging Republican-Conservative James Buckley, who leaves the Senate after one competent but unremarkable term, by a solid 54%-46% majority. That was because the suicidal tendencies of the faction-ridden state Democratic Party were largely overcome, hostility from blacks diminished, and a shortage of money (for more than...