All of these soft-stuff virtues can be summed up in one word: Apple.
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These soft dollar practices must be properly disclosed by managers to their clients and are reviewed by Securities and Exchange Commission examiners periodically.
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As the November 3 election approaches, the leaves glow red and gold these soft fall days and Wisconsin shines in the fall sunlight.
For the women who craft and sell these soft sculptures, hat-making is an intimate art form relying on the intricately plaited bond of creativity and tradition.
In the following video, you can see one of these soft contraptions as it journeys onto a bed of rocks and then uses colored liquid to blend into its surroundings.
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These "soft skills" are essential for success in the workplace, Ketts explains, especially for those with autism disorders.
There's a culture in our society that says remembering these obligations is somehow soft - that we can't show weakness, and so therefore we can't show kindness.
But by common consent, maintaining these surpluses and engineering a soft landing requires policy changes.
Since these arrangements are structurally similar to soft dollar arrangements, the confusion regarding the Rule 6-07 amendments is not surprising.
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Dr. DAVID LUDWIG (Director, Obesity Program, Children's Hospital in Boston): We focused on milk, fruit juices, and soft drinks, because these beverages are highly profitable and heavily advertised to children.
These constraints led to the rise of "soft" money--people making sizable donations to political parties.
Neither of these two states can be described as being soft on crime.
Taken together, these instruments have come to be called "soft power" (as opposed to the traditional kind of "hard power" represented by armies, navies, air forces and nuclear weapons).
The Times's editors, it seems, have a soft spot for elaborate and harebrained schemes along these lines.
These institutions are engaging with external partners to identify the hard and soft skills needed by graduates to succeed in entrepreneurial endeavors, and finding ways to integrate that skill development into the academic curriculum.
"These are just a fraction of what we as consumers spend on soft drinks each year which is almost half a trillion dollars - the total required for species and sites is less than half of what is paid out in bonuses to bankers on Wall street's biggest investment banks, " he explained.
Assume further that the wool market is soft and American's aren't eating much mutton these days.
Razor clams, soft shell clams, hooked mussels, and blue crabs piggybacked of these reefs.
These creepy little monsters are the result of research undertaken at Harvard to develop nature-inspired soft robots.
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Compare these with newspaper companies, under siege for their dim prospects, whose shares fetch 18 times earnings and soft-drink companies, at 20.
Mr. OWEN: The teeth, the lips, the soft palette, the upper palette, your gums, the structure of your jaw, all these things predicate how you're going to speak.
Unless reversed, the cumulative effect of these past and pending actions will be the unplugging of some of the most important conduits of America's soft power.
These are the funny-looking Swiss-made shoes that mimic the experience of walking barefoot in sand or on soft grass.
These experiences are no less important or memorable, but their memories consist of bright lights, shopping buggies, a soft pretzel and endless aisles of stuff.
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