Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leonard Nimoy, who plays Mr. Spock in Star Trek; and a report on a cable series for children, Faerie Tale Theater. The listings are tersely descriptive rather than critical ("so that you can use your own good judgment," says a message to readers), though capsule movie reviews poke some mild fun, even at films carried on Time Inc.'s pay services, Home Box Office and Cinemax. Top editors pledge that coverage of company-owned program services, and their competitors, will be "evenhanded...
...happens in Poland, the workers are a courageous lot of human beings but when it happens here to American workers, they are described as ungrateful, radical, and unpatriotic. The double standards are dramatically portrayed when a university like Harvard can turn its back on Americans struggling for some mild strand of security and insists it is honoring Walesa for the same reasons...
...power in a bloodless coup in 1980, they promised to return the country to democracy as soon as they thought possible. But over the past five months, the regime of President Kenan Evren, 65, has cracked down, sometimes harshly, on journalists, academics and cultural personalities who have expressed even mild opposition to the government. The measures have raised fears that the military leaders of NATO's easternmost member may renege on their pledge. Says the often pro-government columnist Metin Toker: "Whatever they do, it will not create an atmosphere in which democracy can function smoothly...
...have a saying: "There is no such thing as really abnormal weather." But even seasoned scientists have been astounded by the extremes of this year's weather. While winds, rains and high seas have lashed California, much of the rest of the U.S. has basked in an exceptionally mild winter. In Australia, usually drenched by rain during the Southern Hemisphere's autumn, there has been a drought that has been called the worst in 200 years. In the eastern Pacific, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador have been staggered by record rains, floods and landslides that have cost hundreds...
Some experts argue, however, that inventories are still higher than necessary, partly because of an unusually mild winter. Said Stephen Smith, an energy economist at Data Resources: "With storage costs still significant and traders aware that they can pick up all the oil they need in five minutes on the spot market, there's no incentive to start buying yet." Greenspan points out that the fear of shortages that led refiners to hoard oil in the past few years is largely gone...