Word: mild
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From his voice, you’d never guess he’s a pirate. He speaks in a mild tone and chooses his words with care. But Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and a radical environmentalist, freely admits to sinking at least 10 whaling boats in port, and attacking dozens more on the high seas in his lifelong quest to save whales, seals, and other precious creatures...
...parties that competed in the election have nearly identical platforms, but accusations (mild by Western standards) of influence-peddling and smear tactics have begun to enter the discourse, and people are worrying that Bhutan's close-knit society will suffer. Lyonpo Sonam Tobgye, Bhutan's Chief Justice and the main architect of the draft constitution, understands that there should be political debate but laments that differences are splitting villages and even families. "I don't think we should be enslaved to the nature of politics," he says...
...Though some of the British volunteers had had military or police training, most were mild-mannered office workers from British diplomatic facilities in the United States. When disaster strikes, their task is more consular than heroic - they identify British citizens who are dead, missing or injured, while helping to assist victims and their families...
...rest of us, though, bad times are still just headlines. Most economists now think we're in a recession, but so far, it's a mild one, with unemployment at 4.8% and nonfinancial corporations still reporting strong profits. Stock prices are down, but not nearly as much...
...comfortable. "The best-case scenario is a mild recession and a slow recovery with mildly elevated inflation," says Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. "That's the best outcome we can hope for at this point." Rogoff is a co-author, with the University of Maryland's Carmen Reinhart, of a much discussed new paper that surveys the five worst rich-country financial crises since World War II, and he finds alarming parallels to the current U.S. situation. Those crises all brought economic downturns that, while much milder than the Great Depression, were...