Word: benign
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...roguishness of states, however, is in the eye of the beholder. North Korea has moved to thaw relations with South Korea. For that matter, the State Department has announced it will no longer use the term rogue state and instead will substitute the more benign description "state of concern." In a new book, Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy, Robert S. Litwak, a former National Security Council staff member, argues that the term distorts policymaking by demonizing whole countries. Just a handful of nations make up the nuclear club, and these aspiring members are under constant scrutiny. "The ballistic-missile...
...already in the record. This is familiar territory for Microsoft, which has long insisted that all those venomous e-mails and extracts from Gates' videotaped deposition were taken out of context. For example, Microsoft will claim that its brutal campaign against Netscape during the browser wars was ultimately benign, not anticompetitive; both sides issued rapid-fire improvements to their Web browsers, millions of programs were distributed for free, and the Internet revolution continued apace...
...friend and I were talking about how it would be kind of funny if someone ran for UC president in a mask," he recalls. "I thought it was a pretty fun and benign way to poke...
...College's minority students, who comprised about one-third of its population during the early 1990s, and the Houses moved more and more in their own directions. The Houses had less in common with one another, and the differences between them in many ways became too great for the benign rivalries of the earlier decades...
...emergency rooms participating in the Drug Abuse Warning Network reported receiving 1,135 mentions of ecstasy during admissions, compared with just 626 in 1997. If ecstasy is so benign, what's happening to these people? The two most common short-term side effects of MDMA--both of which remain rare in the aggregate--are overheating and something even harder to quantify, psychological trauma...