Word: benignant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bank's arms business was benign compared with the black network's other missions. Sources say B.C.C.I. officials, known as protocol officers, were responsible for providing a smorgasbord of services for customers and national officials: paying bribes to politicians, supplying "young beauties from Lahore," moving drugs and expediting insider business deals...
Pagnolmania the French call their long love affair with the author-auteur (he died in 1974). That benign affliction was rekindled last year with the European release of My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle. This summer the two-film magical memory tour comes to American screens. Rapture is the only appropriate response...
...Scouts stand for the best in national values, an image the group achieved in part by shrewdly staying out of the ever heated debate over what those values are. For 81 years, while the organization inducted 83 million youths, the popular image of a scout has been benign and nonpartisan: a polite teenager helping an old lady cross the street. Chartered by Congress and widely sponsored by schools, police and fire departments, scouting has carefully marketed itself as a community-service institution, worthy of donations and removed from controversy...
...National Weather Service's new $3 million radar outpost in Norman, Okla., proved its worth on its first day of operation last March. That evening a series of thunderheads rolled across the southern Oklahoma hill country. One storm cell appeared -- at least on conventional radar -- to be relatively benign. But not to Nexrad (for Next Generation Radar), a new detection system that is powerful enough to track a swarm of insects moving across a wheatfield 50 km (30 miles) away. The domed instrument peered into the swirling winds and raindrops inside the clouds and saw a tornado aborning. The Weather...
...Children's Hospital, says that jogging alone would be unlikely to provoke such a condition in a regular runner like Bush. "It can happen at that age just spontaneously," he said. "Whether it means there is an underlying problem, I really rather doubt it. Atrial fibrillation is really a benign condition...