Word: mild
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state's influential teacher and school lobbyists. Committee Member Leo McCarthy, speaker of the state assembly, passed up so many meals as the deadline neared that he had a severe allergic reaction to energy-sustaining almonds and had to be temporarily hospitalized. Select Committee Chairman Al Rodda, a mild-mannered former college economics instructor (his doctoral dissertation was The Economic Mind in 18th Century Colonial America), spent 18-hour days grappling with the economic minds of angry 20th century Californians. Also breathing heavily on the legislators was Governor Jerry Brown, whose own plans for dealing with the crisis...
...Egyptian President's reaction to the Israeli vote was publicly mild. "If the peace initiative should fail," he said, "it will not be the end of the world. There will be a new approach." Privately, he has taken comfort from the amount of opposition in Israel to Begin's stand, particularly Weizman's strong reaction. Sadat has threatened in the past to let the Sinai disengagement agreement lapse in October, when it comes up for renewal, if the impasse has not been broken by then. But what he really hopes is that the U.S. will become what...
...cover story on the California tax revolt and its national repercussions, TIME'S correspondents and editors had to deal with a maze of figures about property taxes, assessments and the often stunning jump in real estate prices. For some correspondents, the statistics were academic and provoked only a mild incredulity. But for Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers and Correspondent Joe Kane, the figures were a grim reality: as recent initiates to the California housing scene, they shared the experience and understood the bristling anger of many of the residents they interviewed...
...similar "equating" error in the November GMATs had only a mild effect on the business school admissions process for the fall of 1980. In late November, ETS notified business schools of the error--a miscalculation of about ten points on an 800 scale--and by January had sent corrected scores to the test-takers as well as the schools. Amy Meyer, associate director of admissions to Harvard Business School's masters program, says that because the error was so small, and because the Business School received prompt notification about it, the effect on admissions was minimal. "There was a group...
After about half an hour of waiting, the rockets begin to hit the area. The explosions are at first mild, and it seems that this time the Palestinians have managed to miss Hanita entirely. Then, slowly, the explosions begin to get louder and the rockets start striking closer. The frequency of the attacks begins to increase as well: first the blasts come every 10 or 15 minutes, then every five minutes. Now they seem to come every few seconds...