Word: mild
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When election day arrived, the weather once again plagued Bilandic. It turned mild and sunny, and citizens turned out in near record numbers (57%) to vent their fury. Byrne won in 29 of the city's 50 wards, scoring most heavily in black neighborhoods whose residents blamed Bilandic for a transit authority decision to eliminate several passenger stops so as to serve outlying white areas better. Many residents were also angry at Bilandic's having outmaneuvered black Alderman Wilson Frost, the council's senior member, for the temporary appointment to succeed Daley...
...role in the crisis was superficially understandable, but not warranted by the facts. Moscow had been informed after Teng's visit about President Carter's efforts to dissuade him from any action in Viet Nam. In Soviet eyes, Carter's disapproval must have seemed too mild in the midst of the exciting new Chinese-American embrace. Moreover, Washington's current assurances that Sino-American normalization will continue despite the invasion, and Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal's unperturbed trip to Peking, where he discussed most-favored-nation status for China, were not lost on Moscow...
...contributors are as prosperous as Harvard alumni tend to be, how easy will raising a quarter of a billion dollars in a stagnant economy be? Officials agree that only a troubled economy could cause the Corporation to decide against launching the drive. "If it gets much worse than a mild recession, we'd be crazy to kick off a drive," Glimp says. "If the drive gets delayed or put off, a really severe economic downturn would be the cause," according to Gibbens...
...mild winter this year coupled with last summer's extreme heat may have left the stainless steel roof prone to extreme changes in temperature, producing the cracks, Arthur Dickerman, project manager of Barkan Contractors, which built Canaday, said yesterday...
Schlesinger's office is preparing a packet of mild stand-by controls, some to be sent to Congress next week. Among the proposals: allocate crude and refined products to spread the shortages among distributors and retailers and ban gasoline sales during most hours on weekends...