Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Regan has taken to asking in the manner of Clara ("Where's the beef?") Peller, "Where's the inflation?" Since January the consumer price index has risen at an annual rate of 4.5%. Producer prices, which often foreshadow trends in consumer costs, have gone up at a mild 1.8% pace so far this year and have actually declined for the past three months. Many economists think Volcker has room to nudge interest rates down by perhaps another percentage point without rekindling inflation...
Nothing much happens in this gentle, acute, hugely affecting film from French Director Bertrand Tavernier (The Clockmaker, Coup de Torchon). Monsieur wakes, engages in a mild battle of wills with his sere housekeeper, dresses for the arrival of his son Gonzague (Michel Aumont). Gonzague's stern wife (Genevieve Mnich) lectures Monsieur fondly on his latest painting-"Put a cat on the divan; a cat is always nice"-and Monsieur replies with a smile that might be a wince. His two grandsons make an ordinary nuisance of themselves. His granddaughter, the lovely Mireille (Katia Wostrikoff), watches today's dinner...
...draw came as a mild surprise to the Crimson, which many had expected to face New York champion Hartwick College in the quarterfinals...
Wilkinson, who called the defensive signals for the Crimson this season, deemed the selection "a mild surprise...
...only Democratic coup during that realignment. From 1930 to 1936, the number of Democrats in the House increased steadily from 163 to 333. Nothing of that nature has occured in the 1980s. Rather, during the last three election cycles the nation has suffered a mild case of political schizophrenia, veering from one partisan orientation to another...