Word: mild
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...second, most unwelcome kick from a moderate earthquake centered 35 miles south of the city. The quake, which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, left an estimated $2 billion in damages. While the shake-up was undeniably scary, northwesterners are counting their blessings Thursday - 272 injuries were reported (all mild), and no deaths were directly linked to the seismic shift...
...that's just a mild reprimand compared with the enthrallingly deranged The Red-Wolf of 1995. Gorgeous Elaine Lui, part of a terrorist gang that has seized a cruise ship, shoots a woman in front of her young daughter. Later, after Elaine is set on fire (the wages of sin and all), her partner-in-evil bundles the little girl in dynamite and leaves her hanging from the ballroom chandelier. What the hero doesn't know is that the button to detonate the tnt is on the sole of the kid's right shoe?so that even if they...
...DIED. RODOLFO MORALES, 75, mild-mannered Mexican painter whose colorful, surreal renderings of everyday rural Mexico won international acclaim; in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wary of fame, Morales returned to the dusty Indian village where he grew up and spent the last 16 years of his life using money earned from his works to restore the crumbling monuments of his homeland and promote Mexican art and culture...
...Williams added that the mild nature of Rudenstine's statement did not surprise...
Commerce Secretary Don Evans is a mild-mannered and gentle fellow. He calls nearly everyone "buddy" and seems to mean it. But despite his personal countenance, Evans is about to find himself at the end of some very tough political rhetoric. In his first high-profile move in office, Evans Friday issued a rule that makes him the final arbiter over the hotly contested political issue of whether the initial population count is accurate or needs to be statistically adjusted. The move removes from the Census bureau the decision over whether to adjust the 2000 count to guard against...