Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end the President made his decision. According to the White House, a relatively mild cut of $11 billion will be made from the $554.5 billion in military-spending authorizations originally planned for fiscal 1983 and 1984. That will be preceded by a minor reduction of about $2 billion in the $221.3 billion already requested for fiscal 1982, which starts Oct. 1, mostly by delaying some unspecified weapons-procurement programs...
Meanwhile, Mick Jagger and friends were described as "having a great time" at Long View Farm in North Brookfield, Mass., where they have been rehearsing for the upcoming tour. Their reaction to the controversy in Boston was said by one source to be "mild amusement...
Libya's immediate reaction to the air clash was relatively mild. The Tripoli government claimed that eight U.S. F-14s had attacked its planes and that one F-14 had been shot down, and at first did not acknowledge the loss of any Libyan aircraft. Colonel Gaddafi, in Aden to sign a political and economic cooperation agreement with the radical regimes of South Yemen and Ethiopia, called for Arab mobilization against the U.S. But his government said that it would take no action against Libya's 2,000 American residents, most of whom are oil-company employees...
...since Medflies were discovered almost simultaneously in Los Angeles and in Santa Clara County, just south of San Francisco. No one knows where they came from-perhaps in contaminated fruit from Hawaii. But farmers, recalling the devastating losses from past outbreaks, immediately clamored for aerial spraying with malathion, a mild garden-variety pesticide that kills off Mediterranean fruit flies while causing no apparent harm to humans. Nonetheless, California's Governor, who plans to run for the U.S. Senate next year, refused to allow what he called a rain of chemicals on residential areas. Instead, he opted for a slower...
...could easily be seen-temples, stadia, places of assembly. But the archaeology of Naples gave the visitor a sense of how the ancients lived when at home-when they came off their plinths, shed their cuirasses hérdïques and settled down with their wine cups and mild painted pornography, no longer behaving like noble Romans. Naples rapidly became the center of a mania for the antique, and neoclassicism was a direct result; archaeology exerted a pressure on contemporary art that exceeded even the discoveries of the Renaissance...