Word: mild
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...into turnaround, and ideas were hatched that seemed doomed from the start, Southern did produce completed screenplays for all of them. Some of the most valuable passages in Hill's book offer tantalizing glimpses at these heretofore unseen scripts, including a project instigated by Peter Sellers about a meek, mild-mannered Pentagon auditor who stumbles onto the labyrinthine workings of the international arms trade...
...lose? Because James Hahn, 50, the mild-mannered city attorney and fellow Democrat who most people figured would get lost beside the flamboyant Villaraigosa, turned out to be the better street fighter. With a tough, tightly focused campaign that kept Villaraigosa on the defensive, Hahn managed to convince a winning coalition of blacks and moderate white Democrats and Republicans that there were too many questions about Villaraigosa's integrity to entrust Villaraigosa with running the nation's second largest city. "I can be as tough as necessary," the silver-haired bureaucrat said on Election Day, showing a side...
...students who actually has known him. A new president is coming in and he pledges to do things differently, but Larry Summers, who seems incapable of eating a meal without decorating his tie with some bit of colorful cuisine, may not be suave enough or mild enough to accomplish the kinds of things Neil did, raising billions (billions!) of dollars and showing Radcliffe who her daddy...
...gives them a mild black eye, but I think most people outside the Northeast won?t remember who Jeffords is next week. Up in New England, this move will just underscore the sense that the Republican Party has moved away from its historical values...
...efficacy" data that have not yet been published. But researchers from Novartis and the Oregon Health Sciences University reported in the New England Journal of Medicine last month that 51 of 53 patients who had received the highest dose of the drug had gone into remission with only mild side effects--a little nausea, swelling and diarrhea. In seven of those cases, even the genetic abnormalities known to cause this cancer seemed to have disappeared. Doctors are testing Gleevec on an unusual stomach cancer that is triggered by similar molecular defects...