Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never been north of Holland. His Haarlempjes, or "Views of Haarlem," were also bread and butter; their usual format is one of the best-loved images of Dutch landscape-a wide, flat horizon, punctuated by a church tower, overwhelmed by blowing clouds and permeated by Ruisdael's mild northern light. They repeat themselves, but a man has a right to his own cliches-up to a point...
...Hollister Hills Recreational Park south of town, whole packs of mild-mannered motorcyclists ride up and down the fault every weekend for $1.50 a day. Campers arriving early enough can pitch their tents or park their vans right on the fault line and get a closeup look at the offset streams, broken rock formations and hills forged by the geologic, scraping. The park, according to local Businessman Howard Harris, "has the most active movement in the world," with an average creep of 11 mm (.44 in.) each day. But visitors expecting to see a gaping fracture in the earth...
...well as a penchant for eating out, Americans have been taking in megadoses of salt. In the U.S. today the average adult consumes two to 2½ teaspoons a day, more than 20 times what the body needs. An estimated 35 million people suffer from hypertension, 60 million if mild cases are included. Nearly half of the population over 65 years old is affected. Says Boston Hypertension Expert Dr. Lot Page, chief of medicine at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital: "The link between salt and hypertension is as firm as the link between high cholesterol and heart disease...
...week. The governments of Canada and Japan indefinitely suspended negotiations over rescheduling Polish debt payments due this year and imposed severe restrictions on most new credits to Poland. The Japanese also postponed official trade talks with the Soviets. Foreign ministers of the European Community, meanwhile, agreed to put a mild squeeze on Moscow by increasing the interest on Soviet export credits and limiting some Soviet imports...
...Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a member of the committee: "There's no way a student's brain can function normally when he uses marijuana daily. It's a definite risk, but there's no way to evaluate that risk in a quantitative way." Mild withdrawal symptoms that sometimes occur among heavy users indicate the drug can lead to physical dependence, but the committee stressed that so far there is no evidence that marijuana actually causes addiction...