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Word: mild (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time students are being brought into the process. A mild-mannered and well-meaning administrator who deserves better than this degrading exercise in damage control has been sent to the Quadrangle to speak to residents, to find out which parts of the planned renovations they would value most, and to convince students not to expect too much...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: A Long and Winding Road | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Master of Ceremonies Christopher Reeve, the mild-mannered actor who donned tights for three "Superman" films, auctioned off items donated by businesses and celebrities to about 450 black-tied and bejeweled bidders at the posh Charles Hotel in Harvard Square...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Actor Christopher Reeve Auctions Off Valuable Oddities to Benefit the ART | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

Pollak says it's important for overworked and underpaid students to try to keep their perspective on things. "One thing that often helps people who are going through mild depression is to know that they are not the only ones who get depressed," she says...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: How do Harvard Students Spell Relief? | 3/20/1986 | See Source »

...rebuild the battered agency, the Administration brought back a former NASA administrator: James Fletcher, 66, leader of NASA from 1971 to 1977 and a physicist who headed a commission that urged Ronald Reagan to develop a Star Wars defense against missiles. The mild-mannered Fletcher comes to the post with one handicap: he has accused the Rogers commission of being engaged in a "witch-hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Astronauts Bail Out | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...minor ills with plenty of chicken soup and tlc. But in an era of two-income families, few parents can afford to skip work every time Junior comes down with a real or imaginary malady. This dilemma has spawned a new type of day-care facility for children with mild illnesses. More than three dozen of these so-called sniffle centers have opened for business around the U.S., often bearing names right out of A.A. Milne, like Wheezles and Sneezles in Berkeley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tender Loving Care Inc. | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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