Word: mild
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Elizabeth Stern diagnosed herself as having a mild case of multiple sclerosis. But the couple did not have a specialist confirm the diagnosis until late 1986, did not inquire whether the disease affected her ability to bear a healthy child, and did not seek to adopt a child. William Stern wanted a genetic link. Yet if Sorkow is to be believed, these facts reveal nothing about the Sterns' fitness to be parents...
Despite the conservative backlash, though, recent intellectual purges have been relatively mild when compared with past excesses. Liu Binyan, a leading journalist who was stripped of Communist Party membership in January for questioning its authority, remains a vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association. Liu has further confounded the hard-liners by retaining his post as a reporter for the People's Daily, the official Communist Party paper. Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, dismissed as a university vice president in January, was promptly reassigned to a research job. Such moves have helped reassure China watchers that there is no second Cultural Revolution...
...tops $8.1 billion. That is a healthy reserve, even if the principal cannot be tapped to help solve the current crisis. Harold Heinze, the president of Arco Alaska, looks at the modest rebound in the world price of oil and says, "It feels good to have a mild wind at your back after walking into a gale...
Royalle risked feminist wrath, however, by including a mild and playful bondage episode. She acknowledges that bondage and submission scenes, though high on the lists of female fantasies in sex polls, are "politically incorrect" with the women's movement. "Women do have these fantasies," she says, "but people are still so ignorant that they take them literally and think women want to be mistreated...
Reagan's questioners came into the East Room still buzzing about a sharp blast the day before from the usually mild-mannered Senator Simpson. He snarled that reporters shouting questions at Reagan during a picture-taking session were doing a "sadistic little disservice to your country" by badgering the President about Iranscam. "You'd like to stick it in his gazoo," Simpson charged...