Word: softened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the merits of the suit, it appears that the Carter administration has taken this opportunity to soften its support of the original law. Andrus now maintains that "a statement should be prepared whether required by the law or not. For that reason, we will not appeal the Fresno decision." And during his recent trip to the Rockies Vice President Walter Mondale told the recalcitrant landowners that Carter will ask Congress to approve a sliding scale of acreage limitations based on the type of land and the crops grown on it. However Mondale did not specify to what extent...
...number of issues; his on-again, off-again proposals for tax rebates and "reform," for example, have eroded business confidence. Both the Panama Canal treaty and the SALT talks have inched fitfully along under previous Administrations; Carter has pushed them hard but has sometimes acted prematurely, failing to soften up opponents in Congress-or the Kremlin...
...Smart move," said a faculty member. "Instead of importing some managerial type, they got a humanist to soften the blow." The humanist in question is A. (for Angelo) Bartlett Giamatti, 39, a Yale professor of Renaissance literature, who last week was named 19th president of the university after a nine-month search almost as much talked about as David O. Selznick's pursuit of the perfect Scarlett O'Hara. The blow that he will have to soften is a painful but inevitable cutback on spending...
Most Western observers in Tripoli believe Assad joined the conference not to adopt the rejectionists' stance but to persuade them to modify and soften their attitude toward a peace settlement. The Syrian President is apparently convinced that the radicals can come to some sort of agreement that will counter what one of his aides calls "the present drift toward surrender." But any such agreement, as far as Assad is concerned, will have to rest on the premise that peace is the goal and war the last-ditch alternative. Depending on how the final summit declaration is worded, Assad...
...obstacles is the set. which is actually dysfunctional: it is basically black and decorated with abstract paint dribbles and splotches that provide an effective backdrop for the urban scene described in "My Town," but smother the beauty of the other songs. The lighting is simple, but does nothing to soften the harshness...