Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unhinge our tender relations with mainland China. Candidate Reagan was a Taiwan booster. President Reagan may see it differently if Haig's entreaties are skillful. On the Middle East, Haig is trying to keep his Government, and others, from plunging recklessly after the Saudi peace plan; even a mild endorsement of that flawed proposal, he feels, would wreck the Camp David process and might damage all prospects for Middle East peace...
Prior to last week's summit, the Fahd plan had drawn favorable comment from Western Europe, mild encouragement from the Reagan Administration and qualified endorsement from Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, who called it a "good beginning." Two weeks ago, the plan was approved by the five Persian Gulf states that, along with the Saudis, constitute the newly formed Gulf Cooperation Council...
Propranolol's side effects are comparatively mild. Researchers caution that they do not know how long its protective effects last and when it should be discontinued. Even so, says Friedewald, the new test results represent an "exciting breakthrough...
Gary Bennett, the U.S. coordinator for UKM who was also at the breakfast, said that "hostile is a mild word" for the government's attitude toward the kibbutzim. There is a "tremendous struggle" taking place in the country between the advocates of two "diametrically opposed" views of what Israeli society should be like, he added...
James Tobin, 63, likes to joke about himself as "a discredited Keynesian," in reference to his economics hero, John Maynard Keynes. Last week the mild-mannered Yale economics professor got the last laugh. In Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it was awarding him the 1981 Nobel Prize in Economics. Tobin thus becomes the tenth U.S. citizen to receive the prize since it was first awarded...