Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warren Eagle-Democrat at a time when the community was going through "an explosive, hectic time, caught squarely in the painful throes of a union effort to organize the local lumber mills." Says he: "I learned rather quickly that reporting is a bit more complicated and less benign than simply estimating biscuit consumption...
Weekend Stampede. In 1940 Las Vegas was a scraggly tank town with a tumbleweed economy. But Las Vegas' happy proximity to Southern California and Nevada's benign climate for gambling combined to change all that. By 1953 the population had climbed from 8,400 to 43,000, and business had soared into the financial ionosphere...
...quiet resignation, plodding in its dullness. Similarly drab, Susan is treated so much as a symbol of Boston propriety that she seems brittle and unappealing, while the contradictions of character which make Alice more interesting, are given very vague expression. Far more affecting than these three is the benign figure of Henry's father, who for all his omniscience, is an attractive and bodied character...
...Nassau street merchants speak glowingly of the discrimination and good taste that students show in buying. Chief of Princeton's police, Edward Mahan, is benign when describing the minor peccadilloes that come to his attention. "They are good boys," he says, and points out that rarely is he forced to look up a Princeton for disorderly conduct...
...world." Venezuelan law lets the foreigner operate freely, and U.S. firms, which own two-thirds of Venezuela's $2.3 billion foreign investment, take their profits out in dollars, with no red tape. Yanquis residing in Venezuela pay no U.S. income taxes, and the Venezuelan tax is downright benign. Not until a salary reaches a theoretical $8,400,000 a year would the government take the maximum bite of 28%; a man earning $60,000 a year pays only $1,800. There is no tax on stock dividends...