Word: mild
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...institute's study does not challenge these applications of surgery. Instead, it focuses on whether or not bypass operations extend the life of patients with less severe heart disease. Some of those selected for the study were suffering from mild to moderate angina, the viselike chest pains that signal a decreased supply of blood to the heart; others had a history of one or more heart attacks but did not have recurrent chest pains. The 780 participants, all under age 65, were randomly treated either with bypass surgery or with drugs, such as nitroglycerin and diuretics, that ease pain...
...shoemakers, but his sons Arnold and Leonard began conglomerating in the 1960s. They shifted from leather into plastics and soon became the world's largest manufacturer of above-ground swimming pools. That was a seasonal business, so they bought a snowmobile manufacturer and suffered heavy losses during the mild winter that followed. They admired Atari's pioneering home video game, Pong, and they made a fortune on an imitation named Telstar. But they overinvested in that, lost $22 million in 1978 and nearly went bankrupt. Then they gambled heavily on ColecoVision, which could play both Atari and Mattel...
Other Depo-Provera programs are under way in at least six locations. A program at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem also includes "aversion therapy," in which sex offenders are shown sexually enticing slides and are subjected to foul odors or mild electric shocks if they become aroused because of deviant feelings. Not all specialists in the field are impressed by these experiments. Richard Seely, who runs a highly regarded psychotherapeutic program for rapists and child molesters in Minnesota, considers Depo-Provera dangerous. He cites two men who became so depressed while taking it that they committed suicide...
Derrick Jackson is as mild-mannered and deliberative as sports fanatics come, a far cry from the stereotypical sports writer who hovers over every play of every game...
Lehman said such "ridiculous" examples of overpricing were "unusual," but announced that the Navy would review the pricing of each of the 2.1 million items in its spare-part inventory. He offered only mild condemnation of those who perpetrated the ripoffs: "We have not found any criminal intent, but the companies should have known the prices were unreasonable." He blamed the overpricing on "clericalization," which he said meant "no single person is responsible for it." The cure, he said, was more competition for contracts...