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That initial flight to quality bid on the back of softer overseas equity markets has been present all day.

Joe Lavorgna

One reason coral is so pleasing is that it's a nice bridge between orange and red. It's a softer alternative for people who appreciate the energy of vivid colors.

Dixon Bartlett

Employers in the Green Bay area expect slightly softer hiring conditions than in the third quarter when 20 percent of the companies interviewed intended to add staff and 10 percent expected to reduce headcount. Normally, the fourth quarter (October to December) drops because budgets are spent.

Lisa Ellis

We've had softer revenue growth in North America than we want, ... I expect we're going to do a better job.

Charles O. Prince Iii

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of ''quaint,'' and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.

Northrop Frye

The course is softer and playing longer than what I remember. The fairways are too wide for a major championship.

Bob Gilder

Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

Vaughn Monroe

JGB prices saw some support from softer stock prices earlier, but caution ahead of today's auction erased some gains.

Ryutaro Matsuyama

This kind of spring-like conditions are great for learning, because the snow is softer and slower.

Shannon Mcsweeney

It's my softer side. I go out there and relax. I'm a big fisherman. I love to fish ... in the Pacific Ocean, for tuna and rockfish.

Joel Zumaya

Back-to-back games always intensify everything. It is no secret that the two clubs don't get along and just because neither club can win the league this season doesn't mean the rivalry will be any softer this weekend.

Mike Blaisdell

She's always cautious in letting her guard down, maybe it was the (personnel) position she was in. I notice a little softer approach now.

Rita Peters

Prison has helped him become a better Muslim. He is a Malcolm X with a softer tone.

Shakeel Syed

We've had a little bit of a relief rally because the ISM was softer than expected, but the prices paid were higher so it's hard to get too excited about it one way or another.

Scott Gewirtz

That's pretty good. It's slightly softer, but it's just a continuation of the trend.

Jim Shabi

Average earnings growth was far softer than anticipated. It remained at 3.5% ... and is well below the 4.5% rate that the Bank of England has in the past considered compatible with its inflation forecast.

James Knightley

They could have tried to show a softer side a little bit because it was there. But you get in the heat of the 'Race' and that competitive spirit can take over, and Lake is very competitive.

Michelle Garner

The absence of these events combined with softer ad demand in the auto category unfavorably impacted our broadcasting segment results.

Craig A. Dubow

But as they are further out, I am hitting them with louder, longer notes, trying to keep their attention. As they get a bit closer, I am going to soften it up, put a little more growl into it. Give them that...calls...give them the softer stuff as they get closer, but not go quiet.

Mark Beam

The number won't help the Canadian dollar. We may see further weakening. A softer number provides no reason to go and buy the Canadian dollar.

Reid Farrill

It's a softer surface, and it dents easier than laminate.

Randy Hall

The dollar met strong resistance due to selling by Japanese importers and speculators, and turned softer against the yen.

Minoru Shioiri

It's been a very undecided market. When the opened, it entered a slightly softer period, which was nothing more than a result of profit taking after Friday's enthusiastic buying. After that it turned positive as it got closer to the UK opening.

Lavan Gopaul

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

Christine De Pisan

[Drawing didn't always come easy.] He struggled with black and white, ... But when he got to Arles in 1888, he discovered the reed pen, and it was then he developed a more comfortable relationship with his tool. As reed wears down, it becomes softer, more flexible and responsive to his gestures on paper.

Colta Ives

The pin placements were very hard, ... The greens were actually a little softer today, but the pins and the wind made them tougher. I knew there weren't going to be any 65s today.

Gary Christian

Everything was just a little bit softer in September than we anticipated, and everything was a little bit softer even than that in October, ... showed very good strength.

Michael Mcnamara

The woman also said that she heard the men talking loudly, but that their voices got softer as they apparently drowned. To my knowledge, if a person is drowning, they scream for help and put up a fight.

Malcolm Midgely

The pullback in crude is mostly related to the tentative deal between Russia and Iran on uranium enrichment, and gold is softer mostly for the same reason.

Fergal Smith

The designs are a lot softer and warmer than they used to be.

Susan Humphress

I think she's going to bring a softer edge to things, ... It's all a learning experience and we have to see what happens. But for now they're sticking to slightly safer things, going to events together and whatnot.

Martin Uden

We believe it will be a softer market this year, ... I would say 350 to 400 orders sounds about right.

John Leahy

She no longer needs the big shoulders of the '80s; she no longer needs the pin stripes. She can wear these softer, easier, more feminine silhouettes. She can wear just a dress to the office and look very professional.

Patrick Robinson

Elast-Eon is a very clean material that is free of the silicone oil that has been leaching out of gel-filled devices for the past 20 to 30 years. And we can move back into the softer range that more naturally simulates breast tissue.

Frank Maguire

This acquisition expands New Frontier Media's portfolio to the rapidly growing market for softer, erotic content, as well as to the market for erotic event-type content.

Michael Weiner

We've had softer revenue growth in North America than we want. This is something that I think we can do better.

Charles O. Prince Iii

O Bruscus, cease our aching ears to vex - with thy loud railing, at the softer sex; No accusation worse than this could be - That once a woman did give birth to thee.

Acilius

They've given me a lot of great stuff, ... She has an agenda. She is always out for herself. They have written a few things where you see a softer side of her. Not that soft, but soft for her.

Denise Richards

This means we may end up with a softer March but much stronger April. Easter is one of the biggest retail seasons. It's when new merchandise comes out and families get together for dinner. The later in the year it falls, the bigger the boost to the economy, since the weather is more likely to be favorable.

Scott Brown

Market concerns increased also after softer-than-expected quarterly earnings by Microsoft and the increase in lending rates by the Chinese central bank.

Masayoshi Yano

The housing numbers were softer so we continue to grind higher here.

Bill Kirby

The currency is likely to be guided movements in commodity prices as there's no market moving data locally. The rand will be a touch softer if gold keeps losing ground.

Lee Naisbitt

Should have hit a softer 7-iron.

Chris Dimarco

Automotive demand carried the market through the recession years but must now cope with a modest downturn in late 2005 and across 2006. Thus, special quality bars will continue to see softer demand from this key market in 2006.

John Anton

The whole desert, Riverside area is sitting on soil softer than anyone previously thought.

Nancy Kincaid

People came in waiting for softer news, and didn't get it.

Lisa Finstrom

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

She likes to run, ... She came out of the Beverly D. in really good shape, so we're going to take a shot at the males again. I don't want to run her on too firm a course anymore. She runs much better on a softer course, as was the case in the Beverly D.

Patrick Biancone

It looks very industrial, and it needs to be softer and not as angular. I understand we want to screen the mechanical equipment, but a gable roof is too overpowering, and we may want to aesthetically approach it with a different style.

Michael O'halloran

Part of the discussion is to have a softer approach.

Chris Caballero

You still remember the last time you saw him, kissed him and waved at him. But each time it becomes softer instead of harder.

Melissa Coxwell

Although retail sales continue to be softer than we'd hoped, we continue to be very pleased with the growth of TurboTax Online.

Brad Henske

This week, the pine trees are very tall and when it's windy, we can see it when we hit the ball. Conditions are good. But it's more softer and better than last week. Last week was very hard greens.

K.j. Choi

He struggled with black and white. But when he got to Arles in 1888, he discovered the reed pen, and it was then he developed a more comfortable relationship with his tool. As reed wears down, it becomes softer, more flexible and responsive to his gestures on paper.

Colta Ives

It is difficult to see the New Zealand dollar stage any kind of sustainable rally. Data is likely to portray softer growth than the Reserve Bank's projections.

Sean Comber

The data from Japan was universally softer than expected. It is conspiring to take the yen lower.

Richard Franulovich

There needed to be some kind of forum, to talk about these kinds of things. (Seniors) come from a much softer, much gentler point of view so the kids would be able to understand.

Charie Harris

The retail sales figures were really soft, much softer than expected.

Joseph Lavorgna

The Monetary Policy Committee is back facing a familiar dilemma a housing market that is recovering well, with households not afraid to take on more debt, but real economy and inflation numbers which are much softer.

Geoffrey Dicks

We need to get our country flying again, and we applaud the lead taken by President Bush and Congressional leaders in encouraging Americans to resume their normal lives, including their travel plans, ... However, the reality of softer demand means that we must further reduce our capacity as we enter the fall/winter period.

Jim Goodwin

You are entering a seasonally softer period, so you don't want to have inventory at a worse level in December than where you were exiting the September quarter.

Patrick Ho

Our September sales performance was softer than expected. However, when you consider our exceptional sales performance in July and August, lean inventories, and the competitive environment, we expected there would be some weakening in September sales.

Bill Lovejoy

It's certainly not as radical as the headline number suggests, but it's a little bit softer than expected.

Andrew Goodsall

I don't think the ECB will cut rates today simply because they're still trying to get a grasp on what happenings in the EMU economy and secondly because the softer euro is doing some of the policy relaxation for them.

Alison Cottrell

The outlook statement talks of continued weakness in recruitment markets which management argue -- more persuasively than other peers -- is cyclical rather than structural given a softer public sector in late 2005.

Andrew Walsh

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

Brent Trout

Outside of NSW spending on major renovations was softer, but not substantially so at the end of 2005.

Harley Dale

I hope customers will see a softer side. I tend to be very customer oriented.

Manager Henry Durant

We have a minor stabilization of the market after a couple of slightly softer days. No big surprise.

Stuart Schweitzer

Looking ahead, we anticipate a somewhat softer third quarter and, again, a more dynamic fourth quarter resulting in mid-single-digit sales growth... and solid operating growth for the full year.

Daniel Vasella

It will be music that's a little softer. It will be a mix of songs from the '70s, '80s and '90s that are more geared toward families.

Tom Funk

I think the reason they think it's softer because they're hitting 8-irons [yesterday] and they were hitting 6-irons there [Wednesday]. We haven't watered any of the greens.

Brian Anderson

The Group is on track to deliver trading performance for the year in line with our expectations, a good result given the impact of a softer UK economy and increased security requirements.

Mike Clasper

I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.

Boris Vallejo

First-quarter results are now expected to be even softer than previously thought, and the year will be even more back-end loaded than we had forecasted, so the results are disappointing.

Robert Stallard

With the caution that this is inherently a very volatile set of numbers - especially in July when seasonal swings are huge - the reported results were significantly softer than expected just about across the board.

Ted Wieseman

I want the kids to have a good time with their friends and family. We go softer and once school is back in session, we go back to normal.

Vin Cianfarani

This is a company that's beaten consensus estimates for a number of quarters in a row. This time it just hit the consensus with margins a little lower softer than expected.

Eric Bosshard

That's making the 60 cents (a share earnings) look a lot softer. We're not too concerned about it. But if you want to call this a hit, it's not the best hit we've ever seen.

Ed Groshans