Word: mild
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Weinberger begins his defense of the Department of Defense this week in testimony before the Senate and House Armed Services committees. Mild- mannered and equably spoken but adamant as always, he gave TIME a preview of his argument. The U.S., he said in an interview, faces a Soviet Union "with a growing military strength, almost all of it offensive in nature. And while you're not precisely sure where they will test you, you have to have an ability to project (military power) rapidly to various parts of the world. This includes the requirement that you may have...
...Brazil, a mild-mannered Franciscan friar awaits a ruling from Rome over possible "theological errors" in his latest book, Church: Charism and Power, published in 1981. In the book, Theologian Leonardo Boff attacks the "monarchic and pyramidic" structure of the Catholic Church, which, he says, inevitably aligns the church with the rich. Father Boff wants the pyramid of power turned upside down, so that "the church would be, not for the poor, but by the poor...
...farm debate. By setting price levels for farm produce, Government programs have prevented wide swings in food costs. Ending supports could result in more erratic fluctuations. Food prices rose a moderate 4% last year, a bit less than the consumer price index, and they are expected to show another mild gain in 1985. Americans spend only about 11% of their disposable income on at-home dining, the lowest amount for any major nation...
Rarely, apart from assassinations of the famous, has the act of a single anonymous person caused such a stir. Mild-mannered Bernhard Goetz gets on a New York City subway. Four young toughs surround him, asking first for a match, next a cigarette, then $5. He pulls a gun, shoots them all, two in the back. He runs away, then nine days later turns himself in. The town goes wild for him. Dubbed the subway vigilante, he is the talk, the toast, of every radio call-in show from Miami to San Diego. The outpouring of popular support becomes...
Visitors to Warner, N.H., often stop by Hillside Books, an antique bookstore, to sit by the fire and chat with Owner Thomas Stotler. A day or two after Christmas, a mild-mannered traveler dropped in. He said he was from New York but wanted to get away from the city for the holidays. Soon the conversation turned to crime in the city. The man told Stotler he had been mugged five times and talked at length about how little protection New Yorkers had from criminals. The book dealer asked his guest if he had heard about the fugitive "vigilante...