With a cry to fight foreign intervention, the anti-tax contingent here has seized on the mayor's role to discredit the soft drink proposal, branding it "the Bloomberg tax".
Instead of "hard" approaches like walls and levees, the soft infrastructure proposals blur the line between water and land by creating graduated edges, breakwater islands, absorptive green streets, and protected wetlands.
In his book "On the Water," Nordenson and his co-authors, Catherine Seavitt and Adam Yarinsky, investigate what they call "soft infrastructure" proposals to combat rising sea levels and increasingly frequent storm surges — both effects of global warming.
However, Golden West was also the name for a popular soft drink; the proposal encountered scorn from commentators and was quietly dropped.
Under the Hagel proposal, soft-money donations would have been limited to $60,000 annually to national political parties.
More "soft on crime" proposals are being debated, such as placing inmates in rehab rather than prisons and fully legalizing marijuana.
Application level soft handover: since our proposal is based on an overlay network in which the peers are arranged in layers and clusters according to their connection conditions (bandwidth, delay, packet-loss, computational capacity, availability), it is mandatory to update this information whenever it is changed during the communication session.
The French proposed an Iran oil embargo at the United Nations only to have it shelved for a softer, embargo-less American proposal.
The Treasury said the soft drinks industry levy proposals are proceeding as planned with a consultation just finished and government response due in late November or early December.
That means Mr. Lieberman will push the Bush administration on the soft spots of its proposals even as he reminds everyone that the new department was originally his own idea.
