Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the air and temperatures rise, the planet will approach the state it was in back then. And if those conditions tend to be inherently unstable -- an idea scientists consider plausible -- people may someday look back on the early 1990s as an idyllic time when the weather was benign...
Hard-traveling fandom has become a benign regional contagion. Loren and Tancy Frank packed up the Chevy Caprice last Sunday, drove the 550 miles from Laurel, Montana, checked into a Holiday Inn, walked over to the Rockies' gate, and bought tickets for back-to-back games against the other expansion team, the Florida Marlins. "Neither of us had ever been to a major-league game before," Tancy observes, "so we said, 'Why not?' " They'll be back. So will Karen Harris, who "wanted to see what all the ruckus was about" and motored in from Wiggins, Colorado, 65 miles away...
Peter F. Hagerty '68, one of the panelists, said he had regarded his Navy ROTC service as "rather benign," until he was called upon to serve in Vietnam--and refused. Hagerty did go to Vietnam, however, as a lawyer defending soldiers in cases against the military. Though a civilian, he saw a lot of killing, he said...
Mark Blitz of the Hudson Institute, an Indianapolis-based think-tank, argues that the persistence of conspiracy theories reflects a collective sense of impotency -- people feeling powerless before blind forces they cannot control. In its most benign form, this near paranoia confines itself to Elvis spotting. At worst it leads to convictions that the Jews -- or reactionary capitalists, or unreconstructed communists -- secretly control the world...
...heading toward a compromise on that issue -- was fueled mainly by pique at being passed over by Clinton for Secretary of State. But that misses the essence of Nunn, who sees himself not merely as a dispenser of funds or a legislative traffic cop but as a benign steward of the military...