In summary, the effort to eliminate soft dollars failed and we understand both Morgan and Goldman now offer soft dollar services to their clients.
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Her face was soft now, damp from the steam of my bath and the heat of her news.
The one was on his index finger was shattered and is now gone, nothing now but a soft patch of skin.
Not many years ago hard liquor seemed destined to go the way of some now virtually extinct soft drinks such as Moxie.
The focus now is on "soft skills, " basics like showing up on time, dressing appropriately and not fighting with co-workers.
His Virgin Group began as a record label, and now sells everything from soft drinks to bridal gowns, and even runs a train service and mobile phone network.
Such is the consequence for others (perhaps until now considered as environmental soft furnishings in some way - the bystander, the servant, the uncomplaining numpty) that smoking in the UK and the western world is on the wane.
The oft-raised question--and it's a big one for the U.S.--is whether millennials (also known as "The Everybody Gets A Trophy" generation) have been so coddled, so inoculated against insults and injury, that they are now too, well, soft to achieve entrepreneurial success.
Owned by the Beall family since 1976, Blackberry Farm is now run by the founders' soft-spoken son, Sam Beall.
Now her company, The Soft Serve Fruit Company, has since opened a flagship store near Union Square and a pop up store in the Hamptons.
The only question now is whether we will see a soft or a hard landing.
For it was just now he felt her two small strong soft hands on his, to turn him.
It's now the nation's sixth largest soft-money donor, and its lobbying staff boasts four former members of Congress.
And now, for some reason, now it's Democrats who are soft on immigration?
And the technique is fascinating: black-and-white cinematography (on color stock with the color bleached out), soft images via lenses that now qualify as antiques, performances that echo the old film-noir acting style.
The material is an organic photovoltaic semiconductor (called rr-P3HT) which, unlike the metal or silicon-based materials used until now for such biotechnological interfaces, is soft, light, flexible and highly biocompatible and naturally sensitive to visible light.
Now, though, they are available in soft, fashionable fabrics "that are more acceptable in the residential market, " she says.
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Now, before you start dismissing this as soft-as-tofu logic that just randomly happened to work at Coca-Cola, other experts at this small conference held at the Venetian chimed in in agreement.
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European PMIs also came in a little bit soft and many of those indices are now off 1.5% or so.
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King Sihanouk, sensing growing public anger over the soft treatment of the pair, has now said that he would not be willing to grant an amnesty to the two men.
So, while there has yet to be any concrete evidence that the economy is actually losing steam right now, with lots of people talking about another soft patch, we will want to pay particularly close attention to the upcoming data such as the ISM reports, the jobs numbers, and the commentary from corporations when they report earnings.
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It will now be even harder for the Fed to engineer a soft landing, with growth slowing smoothly to a sustainable rate.
One day, decades from now, people may look back on our reckless consumption of soft drinks and chips in the same way that we today look back at a three-pack-a-day smoking habit.
It went public in 1986 and is now run by a seven-person management committee headed by soft-spoken Chairman George Roche, 63, who joined in 1968 as an analyst and worked closely with Price.
Luis Secco, an economist, argues that with Argentina now risking zero growth, or worse, it will be no soft touch for Brazil's exporters.
Commercial real estate lags the broader economy, so many property owners are seeing the benefits from the climb out of recession now, even with the U.S. mired in a soft patch.
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Although it seemed to have been completed last week, it has now fallen apart: the government apparently thought Gazprom's terms too soft.
The frail-looking, soft-spoken 70-year-old, who is now a teacher at the music academy, recounted having to flee overnight to Quetta, Pakistan, fearing for his life.
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