Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...humans, though, war-related pollution may have been less benign. In response to complaints by gulf vets of mysterious ailments following their tours, the Department of Veterans Affairs will open environmental medicine referral centers in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington. There is a chance these illnesses are pollution related -- at least one vet had elevated levels of hydrocarbons in his blood -- and in the aftermath of the VA's bitter fight with Vietnam veterans over the health effects of Agent Orange, the agency wants to monitor the situation closely...
...global economy? Most economists believe that the world is drifting toward three major regional trading blocs: North America, Europe and, more slowly, Asia. The question, says Michael Aho, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, is whether these connections will turn out to be "benign or belligerent...
Adaptation lay at the cultural heart of Islamic Spain. It was not always benign; like the Venetians bringing back war plunder to St. Mark's, the Arab rulers symbolized their victory over the Christian infidel by taking bells from church spires and converting them into mosque lamps. The most impressive single work of sculpture in the show, the 11th century Pisa griffin, is so hybrid that without a context, scholars seem unable to decide where it comes from -- or even whether it is from al-Andalus at all. It may equally well be Egyptian, North African or Iranian, though...
Negative commercials have run the gamut from benign to sledgehammer. Kennedy ran a tape of Eisenhower's inability to recall anything significant that Nixon had done as Vice President. In 1964 Lyndon Johnson became the first candidate to use the words of his opponent's challengers in the primaries, replaying what they had said as they considered the horrific prospect of Barry Goldwater's ascendancy. Does anyone doubt that Bush will find some use for Paul Tsongas' derisive description of Clinton as a "pander bear...
...tolerance for hard-core parody, see if my sense of humor could withstand this gross spectacle which everyone was saying could be the underground's next big thing. The could be genuinely funny, after all, sort of like Spinal Tap with an edge. I mean, they were just benign art students under all the papier mache, right...