Word: mild
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...Rogers. It is true that Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which lives on in reruns, was an island of tranquillity in a children's mediasphere of robots and antic sponges. And in real life, Fred Rogers, who died last week of stomach cancer at age 74, was evidently as sweet and mild mannered as the kindly neighbor he played on TV. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he didn't smoke, drink or eat meat, prayed every day and went to bed by 9:30 each night. To cynics and parodists, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was a namby-pamby zone of pint-size feel-goodism...
...accounts, Wen has traits that have come to define China's latest crop of leaders, including incoming President Hu: a mild demeanor, punctilious organizational skills and competence as an administrator. Those attributes have not always been enough. Zhu promoted Wen to Vice Premier in 1998 and tapped him to run the problem-plagued financial and agricultural sectors. Despite efforts to make the country's banks stop lending to money-losing state enterprises, bad loans continue to mount, jeopardizing the nation's financial system. Agriculture has also fared poorly under Wen, with farmers' incomes stagnating while China's economy grows...
...Buddha statues replete with white gemstones illuminate the room. Linguists can browse the shelves of the library, which contain Buddhist texts in both English and Chinese. Collectors of oddities will enjoy eyeing the objects up for sale in the bookstore: tea sets nestled in silk-lined boxes, sticks of mild-scented incense and jade decorations, in addition to the myriad of religious treatises. But in the midst of this spiritual and cultural immersion, the hungry man is by no means forgotten...
...Taiwanese chef to plan out the meal. On this Saturday afternoon, the soup of the day resembled the hot and sour soup of Chinese take-outs. However, the broth itself was surprisingly thin and mild-flavored. Tofu, carrots, coriander and honey suckle flower floated in my spoon. Upon finishing the soup, Tony brought out plates with a mound of rice in the middle surrounded by the four vegetable dishes: steamed bok choy, Napa cabbage and mushrooms cooked in their own broth, tofu in a creamy tomato sauce and imitation meat with diced potatoes and carrots...
Neither sophomore forward Kat Sweet nor freshman forward Carrie Schroyer dressed for last night’s game due to injuries. Sweet sat out with a mild concussion, while Schroyer is still healing from a shoulder injury against St. Lawrence over a week ago. Freshman Jacyln Pitushka earned time on the third line in their absence...