Stockman alludes to the above with his point about soft GDP growth, business investment, and employment.
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For one, when we have to deliver negative feedback we often soft pedal to the point of being downright confusing.
When the biggest names in boxing talk about the future of the sport, they point to a soft-spoken man who weighs only a little over 100 pounds and hails from one of China's poorest provinces.
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But what about the basic point, Joe, that soft border is a national security issue.
The rule of thumb is that a 10pc rise in crude cuts US growth by 0.2pc four quarters later, but the science is flabbily soft and nobody knows where the inflexion point lies.
Likewise, what is the point of offering passengers anything but cans of fizzy American soft drinks like Coca-Cola and 7-Up, when the airline is operating in a region blessed with a bounty of fresh fruits?
According to the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, studies of pesticide harm point to everything from elevated rates of childhood leukemias, soft-tissue sarcomas (aggressive tumors), and brain cancers to childhood asthma and other respiratory problems.
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"Our point of reference is he was a kind, gentle, soft-spoken teenager, " Ms. Page said.
And the shift has occurred from public power to private power, from political power to economic power, from hard power to soft power, with the end of the Cold War as the turning point.
It was a point of contention during his confirmation hearing, with some Republicans accusing him of being too soft on Iran.
The camera's got a reasonably slim profile that's a bit more like an oversized point-and-shoot, slight bulk that's presently largely because of the extended soft grip and big three-inch TFT display on the rear -- and then, of course, there's that 25 mm wide-angle lens with 24x optical zoom that certainly adds a good deal to the camera's footprint when extended.
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