Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard senior tailback Mark Vignali suffered neck injuries and a mild concussion late in Saturday's game against Brown...
Just one play after Vignali went down, teammate George Sorbara also suffered a mild conclusion...
...cutting legislation in 1981. He harps on his association with the President so often that Doggett was finally moved to rueful complaint. Said he: "President Reagan's neck is probably a little sore because Phil Gramm has been hanging around it." Their exchanges are not always so mild. When Doggett secretly taped a telephone conversation with his opponent about ending their mutually negative ad campaign in favor of more positive fare, Gramm howled that Doggett had reached "an alltime low in Texas politics." Countered Doggett: "Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk...
There are a variety of reasons for the gap between the sharp price hikes that many people see and feel and the soothingly mild ones that the Government reports each month. One source of the disparity is the Consumer Price Index itself. Composed of a so-called market basket of goods and services ranging from haircuts to houses, the index measures the prices paid for average purchases by the average consumer. The trouble is that such people do not really exist. The C.P.I. assumes that shoppers spend 18.7% of their income on food, for example, without allowing for individual differences...
...Crimson's fifth-place ranking came as a mild disappointment, though, if only because the University of Massachusetts was ranked fourth. Harvard defeated UMass, 1-0, a week ago, and as a result had hoped for the higher seeding and the automatic home field advantage for not only the first round game but also the second...