Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steven, considered mild-mannered around Naples, where the freshly widowed Margaret Benson had moved from Lancaster, Pa., in 1980, wept twice during the trial. When the verdict was pronounced, he sat in choked silence. The defense planned to appeal...
...movement on sanctions. Stunned by the adverse reaction to Reagan's speech, which failed to suggest any change in policy toward South Africa, the White House seemed ready to yield to the pressure for sanctions while trying to hold them to a minimum. It hopes to persuade Congress that mild sanctions taken in concert with other nations would be more effective than harsher measures taken unilaterally...
...last week by announcing that it had reached an agreement with Pretoria to increase U.S. imports of South African textiles by 4% a year. The unfortunate timing managed to outrage the advocates of protectionist legislation in the depressed U.S. textile industry even as it angered supporters of sanctions. The mild-mannered Lugar called the textile deal "hard to believe." Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray termed it "lunacy." Protested Democratic Congressman Butler Derrick, of textile-producing South Carolina: "We're wrapping ourselves in % the misery of that country's black majority. It's downright idiotic...
...companies in South Africa and a ban on imports from South Africa's state-owned steel and coal industries. If he seems calm about the policy storm looming, it may be because he is confident that his plan will receive serious attention. Says Lugar in a deceptively mild tone: "I'm not the kind of person who is easily rebuffed...
...editor of London's Financial Times, admitted that "the outlook for world trade liberalization is not good," but added, "The surprise is that it is not worse." He noted that the volume of world trade is expected to grow at least 4% to 5% this year. That is a mild increase over 1985, but only half the 1984 rate. Brittan singled out nontariff barriers to trade, like voluntary quotas, as particular villains in that sluggishness...