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' " Lord Rees-Mogg said that "[t]he precedents under American law are that Microsoft will not be allowed to expand, or even retain, its present degree of monopoly," and he suggests that Gates take a leaf out of the book of John D. Rockefeller who, in his later years, consulted a public-relations firm and "took to giving out dimes to children in the street in order to soften his image as a hard-hearted businessman."
Large-volume enemas that work by distending the colon to induce peristalsis and soften are not well tolerated by debilitated patients.
The NYT story stresses the inability of congressional Republicans to soften their image post-Newt Gingrich; the Post notes that Bush's policy positions are still solidly conservative, despite Bauer's and Forbes' assertions to the contrary; and the Journal calls Bush's Tuesday remarks his "Sister Souljah moment"--referring to candidate Clinton's successful 1992 strategy of distancing himself from his party's ideological base.
The Times thinks that passage of such legislation would soften Senate resistance to the treaty and help align industrial and environmental goals.
The Labor Department responds that it is not to blame for the sloppy way in which Congress, seeking to soften union opposition to NAFTA in 1993, drafted the NAFTA monitoring rules.