Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Toronto fans' hunger for wins was mild measured against their thirst for beer. Ontario's priggish provincial government deemed the vending of alcoholic beverages at the ballpark immoral...
WEIRDNESS IS "Dr." Hunter S. Thompson's trademark. The father of New--or what he calls "Gonzo"--Journalism, Thompson helped shatter the image of the solemn, mild-mannered reporter by writing pieces that would have turned Clark Kent's blue hair white. As a Rolling Stone correspondent and in his Fear and Loathing books, he chronicled his lavatory run-ins with Richard Nixon and George McGovern and his experiences with grass, mescaline, acid, cocaine, uppers, downers, Wild Duck, Budweiser and ether. In between trips, he produced some of the most incisive perceptions of the sixties and early seventies in print...
From the moment economists first began warning six months ago that the Administration's inflation-fighting tactic of pushing up interest rates would bring on a recession, Jimmy Carter has been countering with calm assurances that any downturn would be "mild and brief." All winter long it seemed as if he might be right. Unemployment, a major indication of economic health, hovered steadily at an unsatisfactory but acceptable 6% of the labor force...
...week went on, the White House tried to persuade its allies that it made more sense to support the comparatively mild measure of leveling sanctions against Iran than it did to risk having the U.S. take military action that could disrupt the flow of oil to Europe and Japan. Says one Administration official: "It is not a very subtle point. They understand that the more pressure we can put on now, the less we'll have to squeeze later. And they know that we don't have much left to squeeze with...
...experts expect that this recession will be as severe as the one six years ago, which lasted 16 months and caused output to decline by 5.7%. But the Carter Administration's projections of a "mild and short" decline are so much whistling past the graveyard. TIME Board of Economists Members Walter Heller and Otto Eckstein see the economic drop ranging from 3% to 4%, with a slow recovery starting in the second quarter of 1981. That would make this downturn the second worst since the Great Depression...