Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thatcher's economic policies and the cold, uncaring image she presents have thoroughly unsettled her own party. The division and rancor that broke into the open at Blackpool were a harsh departure from traditional Tory civility. When Thatcher's Home Secretary, William Whitelaw, put forth a relatively mild motion on law-and-order, it was hooted down. Observed Political Commentator Peter Jenkins in the Guardian: "Beneath the incantations of the simple Thatcherite faith is a nasty tone of class grievance and sullen nationalism...
This year's casualty totals threaten to rise no higher than the peaks of the ten-year period between 1957 and 1967, which began with a mild recession under Dwight Eisenhower, encompassed John F. Kennedy's famous expansionary tax cut in 1964, and ended just as the Lyndon Johnson boom years of Viet Nam were beginning to fire up domestic inflation. In 1957, 13,739 firms went bust. In 1967, near the zenith of the go-go years, 12,364 companies went under. The highest number of failures registered during the entire period, 17,075, came...
Concerns over diminishing University prizewinnings, though, was far from anybody's mind Monday. Bloembergen, an expert on non-linear optics and nuclear magnetic resonance, voiced only one worry, and it was appropriately mild: "I hope [the award] won't change my life too much because I consider my life pretty good...
...Cambridge Boat Club, where the results of the individual races were posted for all to see, had lapsed into a state of mild chaos by the time the day's races were over. Team representatives frenetically tried to find out how their boats had fared, and regatta officials met to consider protests entered by the crews and assess penalties to crews and scullers for buoy violations. The scorers added ten seconds for each buoy beyond which the boat might stray, and then corrected the standings in each category accordingly...
...come out, John, I'll let you serve," coaxed a coy Billie Jean King. "You can even pick your own linesman." This last promise was one her quarry couldn't resist, and out from backstage came a head-banded, curly-haired, racquet-wielding Snoopy masquerading as a mild-mannered John McEnroe. The arena was the Grand Ballroom at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria, as the Second Annual Women's Sports Foundation dinner served a sizable helping of awards and raised some $80,000 to encourage women's participation in sports. "I adore John," Billie...