Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and talked friend Paul Allen into joining him in Albuquerque, New Mexico to start Micro-Soft.

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Now, before you start dismissing this as soft-as-tofu logic that just randomly happened to work at Coca-Cola, other experts at this small conference held at the Venetian chimed in in agreement.

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Add to this the fact that Norway has a maximum sentence of 21 years (though it can be extended by a judge) and Norway certainly does start to look awfully soft on crime.

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Start with the spicy fried soft shell crab and juicy morsels of grilled beef wrapped in betel leaves.

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The Chinese government has been steadily orchestrating a soft landing of the economy since the start of the year.

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England's revised batting order, led by Ravi Bopara, batted more positively at the start, but was let down by the soft dismissals of Pietersen and Paul Collingwood.

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It would disadvantage small fund-management start-ups that badly need initial help from soft brokers.

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Edwards' response to the attendance issue was to remind people of Cheney's record as a soft-spoken right-wing wack-job in the House: voting against Head Start, voting against Meals on Wheels, voting to legalize plastic guns that terrorists can use to defeat metal detectors, voting against the Martin Luther King Holiday and against a resolution calling on the racists in South Africa to free Nelson Mandela.

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Wal-Mart, for example, announced it had seen its weakest start to February in approximately seven years, while Target noted sales volumes had been soft.

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