Word: mild
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That is surely good news for Aquino, whose People Power revolution helped drive former Strongman Ferdinand Marcos from office just over one year ago. Since then she has been beset with a mild flurry of rightist plots aimed at either unseating her or destabilizing her government. An 18-year Communist insurgency stopped briefly but resumed with a vengeance last February. For the economy, the result was that the Philippine GNP, which had dropped 5.6% in 1984 and another 3.8% in 1985, continued to fall through the first half of 1986 before ticking up an almost unnoticeable...
Rybakov was lucky. In the still more terrible sweeps that took place later on, innocent victims were sentenced to long terms in labor camps or, in many cases, shot. The Siberian exile that the author endured was mild by comparison. After his three-year sentence, Rybakov drifted from village to village, taking jobs as varied as truck driver and ballroom dance instructor. He never stayed at one place more than a few months because his record as an "Article 58er" made him vulnerable to rearrest by authorities and to a prison-camp sentence...
...then the country was in the midst of the cultural thaw of Khrushchev's destalinization, a time of extraordinary ferment in the arts. Rybakov wrote an anti-Stalinist novel, Summer in Sosnyak, about a girl whose parents were killed in the 1937 purges. It was relatively mild politically and appeared in Novy Mir but was later suppressed until the publication of Rybakov's collected works in 1982. In 1964 he started Children of the Arbat, but by that time the thaw was over and the long twilight of the Brezhnev era was setting in. "Tvardovsky, the courageous Novy Mir editor...
...symptoms had begun in their early 30s for both men. First there was the mild stiffening of limbs and the tremors that mark the onset of Parkinson's disease. Then came the gradual loss of muscle control, leaving them prisoners in their own bodies -- mentally lucid but physically unable to eat, urinate or comb their hair without assistance. Levodopa, the most common treatment for the debilitating illness, had ceased to work for one man and could not be tolerated by the other. Nor were other drugs of use. Facing further deterioration, the two agreed to become guinea pigs...
Plimpton meant to be funny, of course, but the medical and exercise experts on the advisory Body Worry committee didn't laugh when they saw the results of Remar's screening physical. Turned out that he had mild heart disease; his lungs and liver were also impaired, probably from heavy smoking and drinking. Remar's muscle odyssey suddenly expanded into a serious quest for health. He'd already stopped his three packs a day. In January 1986, he began his new regimen by quitting the booze. For the first three months, he and his personal trainer weighed and recorded every...