Much of the attention throughout the sports business during the past week has been paid to the attendance issues surrounding the Tampa Bay Rays and the commentary that reasons the Tampa Bay area is too soft a market for Major League Baseball.
The only question now is whether we will see a soft or a hard landing.
The result was a soft cheese with a white crust, "Caravane", and nicknamed Camelbert.
Krug's voice is a dynamic treasure, as it alternates between a soft mumble and a catapulting warble.
Sound quality matters most for headphones, but we won't lie: we've got a soft spot for a slick design.
The win was secured when Lawrence again conceded a soft penalty with a rash challenge on Carew just inside the box.
As well as those expecting a soft landing, a number of institutions and economists are also predicting heavy falls of about 30% over several years.
All those pledges to remember, next time you check into a hotel, whether you like a soft pillow or a hard one: they have an impact.
She has been accused of taking a soft line in a dispute with Argentina over the price of gas, unfairly since Chile has no choice but to import it.
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If I have to leave her, she shall have a soft toy with a recordable chip on which I shall leave consoling messages that will be activated whenever she plays with the toy.
Laura Clancy, chief of staff at charter-school nonprofit Achievement First, has seen her share of business refugees looking for what they think will be a soft landing or a hero's welcome doing philanthropic work.
If a prototype developed by Nokia Research and the Helsinki Institute of Information Technology ever translates to production, however, it'll be as much a part of personal phone conversations as a soft voice or a cheeky text message.
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There are risks in that the rapid rises in residential real estate prices could reverse and become destabilizing to parts of the economy, but overall, we forecast a soft rather than a hard landing for the economy and forecast 2102 economic growth of about 8%.
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David May, director of global marketing at Goldman Sachs, argues that whereas firms can control almost every aspect of the brand of, say, a soft drink or a pair of shoes, in financial services the brand depends heavily on the people who are employed by a firm.
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Maybe I'm filled with the milk of human kindness, or perhaps I have a soft spot for supermodels--I'm a gay man, so I have at least one soft spot for supermodels--but I actually believe that it's possible for a beautiful, young woman to fall in love with an obscenely wealthy older man.
Then again, 7% growth instead of 10% growth is a soft landing, not a hard one for China, Li says.
It takes more than paying lip service to a few soft skills on a performance scorecard to get the job done.
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The markets and policy makers were hoping for a soft landing and for a time it seemed we were going to achieve one.
Overall, the latest data continue to suggest a soft landing, but a strong acceleration in activity in Q1 remains unlikely, in our view.
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The stereo unit is built around a two-way system featuring a soft dome tweeter and a powerful compact woofer loaded by a passive radiator, for each channel.
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This, in turn, will be good for China and the world economy, as the real estate market will be in for a soft landing rather than a hard-landing.
Meanwhile, the financial world relies on Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, to act as its swing producer, pumping a little more liquidity into the system when prices are soft, a little less when they drift too high.
It's a soft sell, but it would be a mistake to conclude that Gates has gone soft.
As the owner of a soft dollar brokerage firm who is a former SEC attorney, as well as a legal counsel for one of the largest money managers, I frequently encounter soft dollar abuses.
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But worries persist that Yudhoyono's nation is a soft underbelly in resistance to a possible avian-flu pandemic emanating from Asia.
As you can see in those press shots, it has the same look and feel, too, including a soft-touch finish and a relatively cushy keyboard.
DuPont predicts demand for Sorona, which turns out a soft and stretchy fabric like a cross between nylon and polyester, reaching 1 billion pounds or more by 2010.
Steven has been given a three-month eating plan which includes only soups initially, then moves onto puree food, then a soft food diet and finally a normal diet.
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