Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heidi K. Hopper '91 disagreed with Taylor and said that although she didn't like the idea of printing negative mottoes on T-shirts and sweatshirts, she didn't mind mild positive statements like "Harvard's better than Yale" or "Beat Yale...
What may finally have persuaded the Finance Minister to make at least a mild concession on interest rates was the beating that German exporters are taking because of the rise of the mark against the dollar, which makes their products more expensive in the U.S. In an interview last week, Stoltenberg told a West German newspaper, "We now want to cooperate again constructively." One eventual outcome could be a meeting among the finance ministers of the seven major industrial democracies, the so-called G-7 group, to work out a plan to support the dollar at its new, lower level...
...mild October. But then the temperatures dropped, and the cold at dusk had the first wolf of winter...
...episode of The Golden Girls, Sophia (Estelle Getty) met an old gent on a park bench, then discovered that her new friend had Alzheimer's disease. Never mind that the series has stooped to making jokes about Sophia's own near senility; this case of Alzheimer's was so mild that the viewer hardly noticed it before the fellow was whisked offscreen...
There is some mild satire poking fun at the British upper class, circa 1937. These twits are the sort whose servants laugh at them behind their backs. For them, propriety and gentility are all-important. Strong emotions are not allowed to upset the teacart. Jack describes his love for Kitty--"Well, this is the real thing. Marriage and all that."--as if it were a minor inconvenience. These characters have such stiff upper lips that they cannot kiss...