Word: softened
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...scant feel for the subtleties of legislative or communication strategy. Close friends have urged the President to reach out for help in these areas, although Sununu is so resistant to second-guessing that such consultations are likely to take place only in secret. Meanwhile, Sununu is trying to soften his public image. As Bush barnstormed the country in search of Republican votes, Sununu haunted the so-called buffer zone, the narrow secure area between the podium and the audience, scanning the crowd for a small child. Finding one, he would take the tot by the hand and lead his little...
...very difficult to soften a deficit with a fundraising campaign," said Stanford University President Donald Kennedy '52, whose school is now winding up a $1.1 billion capital drive...
...little that government can do to head off such trouble. The conventional remedy for recession is deficit spending -- but the budget deficit is so swollen there is little room to pump it up further. The Federal Reserve Board is in an especially impossible position. To ward off or soften recession, the Fed would normally lower interest rates; to combat inflation, it would raise them. To fight both together, it should do -- what? The conventional wisdom is stumped for an answer. The time to move was much earlier: wise policy could have reduced U.S. dependence on imported oil and lowered...
...Times Mirror study notes that the young audience has "buoyed the popularity of the new, lighter media forms," such as People magazine and TV's A Current Affair. The survey may give news executives a further excuse to soften and glitz up their products to try to woo the young. But that means walking a tricky tightrope: in trying to make the news more appetizing, they risk turning it into something other than the news...
...around to his native Maine on the next visit. The U.S. trade czar, Carla Hills, sat at Gorbachev's right but offered only a beatific smile when asked if she had cut any deals over the mixed spring salad. In the White House, candlelight and the aura of history soften the edges, bringing everyone closer together. That magic was at work Thursday night...