Word: softer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some animals because they are fierce, and some because they are lovable and soft. It is hard to explain the attractions and preferences. It is possible that human feelings about wild animals reflect the complexities of sexual attractions. Certain animals are admired for their majestic aggressions, and others for softer qualities. The lion is a sleek piece of violence, the waterbuck a sweet piece of grace...
FRANCE. The government has forecast growth of 2.8% this year, but Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, contends that it will be more like 2%. He cites soft consumer demand at home and still softer exports as causes for concern. Traditionally, some 30% of French exports go to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other developing nations where lower oil revenues and large debt loads have sharply curtailed purchasing power. As a result, France's export earnings are bound to suffer. Sluggish growth may nudge up unemployment from 10.6% to 11% this year...
Tambo may have adopted the softer tone with an eye toward his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington later this month. The U.S. shares the A.N.C.'s goal of a multiparty democracy in South Africa but objects to its violent tactics and Communist connections. Last week the Secretary departed on an eight-day trip to six black African countries that are considered U.S. allies -- Senegal, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Liberia -- but had no plans to meet with Tambo or visit South Africa during his journey. Said Shultz: "Right now there doesn't seem...
...Casey, a speed-reader with an ability to assimilate complex information quickly, has one of the sharpest minds in the Government. "Bill Casey's the brightest guy I've met in my life," declares Stanley Sporkin, a former CIA counsel and now a federal judge. Casey's speech grows softer and less articulate, intimates say, when he does not like the questions being put to him. "His mumble becomes decidedly worse when he has to talk to Congress," notes one old friend. Anne Armstrong, chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, explains that Casey "doesn't spill his guts...
...Knights don't have enough trouble already with Harvard's potent offense, they won't find the Crimson defense any softer...