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In an editorial, the Independent said that Blair, a "hawk without wings," has been allowed to become isolated by Clinton "as the US reluctance to commit ground troops has hardened rather than softened and the President has followed the line of least resistance."
I left the passage in, but softened it.)
The release of the latest batch of Nixon tapes shows that death has not softened the old anti-Semite, except in the sense that he's dead.
At the same time, requests for services from the foundation, which has the mission of providing free legal aid to poor people in order to make "equal access to justice" a reality, have increased as the economy has softened.
The LAT lead's headline--"OSHA Scales Back Its New Workplace Safety Plan"--and its first paragraph suggest that the government has quickly caved in to the protesting business world, whereas the story itself explains that the rules were softened last February, not yesterday.