Word: mild
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mild weather that prevailed in the rest of the country was perfect for the season's feasts and fairs. It was time for the Harvard-Yale game, U.S.C.-U.C.L.A., Nebraska-Missouri and a hundred aching clashes between rival high schools. There will be parades this week in Philadelphia, Houston and Hollywood, and of course the big Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. (Missing from that extravaganza, however, will be the familiar figure of Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney officials, who control appearances by replicas of the celebrated mouse, do not want him to become too familiar...
...scattered shortages and climbing prices result from heavy demand. The summer bulge in gasoline use was bigger than expected this year, and it has stayed up because of the mild weather. In early November, for instance, consumption was as high as it had been in August. But production has dropped, because of breakdowns at some major refineries. To meet demand, companies have been buying gasoline from outside sources at premium prices, and passing their added costs on to the consumers...
...vote came as a mild surprise. At the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury last August, a broad consensus of bishops of the Anglican communion from 25 nations joined those of the mother church in agreeing that the volatile issue of women's ordination ought to be decided by each national church. By taking that position, observers thought, the English Anglicans were foreshadowing approval of the bitterly disputed proposal. The lead had already been taken by Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong with little backlash. But the U.S. cast a shadow: after a close pro-ordination vote for women...
...result, according to many economists?including those who think that the President had no choice?is greatly to increase the chances of at least a mild recession next year (and "mild" might mean a rise in unemployment to 7 million people, from almost 6 million now). Grumbles Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists and sometime Carter
...recessions since World War II have started with high interest rates' causing a slowdown in housing. Then; came reduced consumer spending and cutbacks in business outlays for plant and equipment. Even if the prospective recession follows that traditional pattern, though, most economists now believe it will be comparatively mild and not a repetition of the severe downturn...