Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets may reap additional solace from the likelihood that the increase is caused not only by an unusually mild winter and early spring, but also by the conversion of recalcitrant farmers. They seem to be at last responding to the initiatives outlined in Brezhnev's controversial "Food Program," under which farmers throughout the Soviet Union have begun to form "contract brigades" that reward members with cash or produce whenever crops exceed a predetermined goal. Says a U.S. expert: "By the inefficient standards of Soviet agriculture, the contract system appears to be a step forward...
Shultz shuttled between Jerusalem and Beirut six times in seven days. He even had a mild brush with the terrorism that haunts the region. One night, as he slept at U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon's house in suburban Beirut, two Katyusha rockets whizzed overhead and exploded about 100 yards away. The rockets, like several artillery or mortar rounds that subsequently fell within 500 yards of a U.S. Navy ship offshore, were thought to have been fired from the mountains by Syrian-backed Druze forces...
Under Kreisky, the country enjoyed remarkable labor-management peace, relatively mild inflation (5% this year) and Western Europe's lowest unemployment rate (6%) outside of Switzerland. Kreisky was always far more popular than his party, even though he frequently confounded the country with his prominence on the international stage-mediating distant disputes, pleading the cause of the Third World, supporting the Palestine Liberation Organization although he is of Jewish extraction-and his penchant for lecturing Austrians in his gravel voice like an irascible Opa, or grandpapa...
...Empire State. Even without the menacing biplanes, Kong fared poorly, with tangled cables and tears in his heavy vinyl-coated nylon skin. But after a week of deflating mishaps, the balloon's builders, who plan to take the ape on tour this year, finally got the weather and mild winds they had prayed for. And lo, as blowers pumped air through Kong's toes, the creature filled out to his full, magnificent size, producing one of the most striking sights ever added to the Manhattan skyline. (The original, of course, only climbed a model.) Alas, the King...
...Saturday for the laxwomen, who will face Yale in their first home game in three weeks. And although this weekend's two relatively easy wins didn't provide much challenge, they could just be the spark the squad had needed. The Crimson, which had recently been suffering from a mild slump, upped its record to 7-3 (3-1 in Ivy play) with the two wins...