Word: softer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wilhelm Roentgen opened the first window into the living body and inaugurated a new age in medicine. But anyone who has ever glanced at an X-ray film can perceive its Limitations. The picture gives little sense of depth, and while bones show up crisply enough, many of the softer tissues of the body are fuzzy shadows in shades of gray...
...delicate final week of negotiations, the catalyst-"escape valve," Commissioner Pete Rozelle called him-was Paul Martha, 40, a former Pittsburgh Steeler now a Pittsburgh attorney. Martha is a friend of Steeler President Dan Rooney, who had a large voice in management's negotiations and a much softer voice than Chief Negotiator Jack Donlan's. Martha also has a friendly relationship with Garvey. "Paul went back and forth," Rozelle said. "He was very helpful." Near the end, Garvey's willingness to accept help smacked of desperation. Individual teams were taking votes and signaling a growing inclination...
...bishops' letter is, intentionally or not, highly sympathetic to Democratic positions on nuclear arms. Indeed, the language used in calling for a freeze is nearly identical to a resolution, backed mainly by Democrats, that narrowly failed a House vote (204-202) last August; approved instead was a softer, Administration-backed proposal. Aside from its general political implications, the letter offers ammunition to the freeze movement. Says Randall Kehler, national coordinator of the Freeze Campaign Clearinghouse in St. Louis: "The document is saying to people that this is a serious, moral, religious issue...
...risky to attack Reagan headon. Says Eric Kozenman, a press aide for Democratic Congressman Bob Shamansky in his reelection race in Ohio: "We don't even like to use the term Reaganomics. We say 'the Administration's policies' are all wrong. That's softer...
...short fuse on this situation," warned the President. By raising questions about whether this use of U.S. weapons constituted "defensive action," which is a condition of arms sales to Israel, Reagan implied that the flow of military hardware could be curtailed. But the White House took a softer line in a statement it issued describing the 20-minute meeting. "The world can no longer accept a situation of constantly escalating violence." Reagan's advisers calculated that private pressure, rather than public prodding, would be more effective (and less likely to backfire) in dealing with volatile Prime Minister Menachem Begin...