Word: mild
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...drinks and snacks, the conversation drifted to comparisons between Harvard and Cambridge. A postdoc offhandedly commented that a friend of hers, a graduate student from America, knew less chemistry than the typical British undergrad because American students spend so much time taking classes unrelated to their major. That mild complaint sums up the American “liberal arts education” belief that a broad education is beneficial to the development of the student as a scholar and a citizen...
Those shocks will be mild compared with the ones that will follow when the Administration presents its budget proposal for fiscal 1987, which begins next October. That document, due in February, will have to pare planned spending by more than $50 billion to comply with Gramm-Rudman, and leaks and protests are already flowing copiously from dismayed officials and special-interest groups. Since Reagan hopes to protect defense spending, his proposals will focus on domestic programs. Among probable goals: total elimination of the Small Business Administration and Job Corps, sale of the Federal Housing Administration and certain federally operated power...
...viewers who preferred to see the Rose Parade or the soap All My Children. No such gripes were reported from Moscow, where Reagan led the 9 p.m. news. His appearance was not billed in advance, but the Soviet audience may have reached 150 million. For them, it was a mild shock, certainly a rarity. The last time a U.S. President had come on, eyeball to lens, was in 1972, when Richard Nixon appeared. Reagan, the Great Communicator, made his plea "to try to reduce the suspicions and mistrust between us," then tried a little shaky Russian: "Let us look forward...
...Argentine, I am proud of the verdict against General Jorge Videla and company. However, I believe that the sentences were very mild. This trial is unique and set a precedent that should be noted by the other dictators in Latin America. Juan M. Cutri Arcadia, Calif. Mickey in France...
...somber ceremony marked a kind of coming-of-age for a country long untouched by political violence. The man who was tapped to launch the new era in Sweden is Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, 51, the mild-mannered politician elected by Parliament three days earlier to succeed Palme. After the new Prime Minister had spent a week in the public eye and held a series of meetings with visiting foreign leaders, the contrast with his predecessor was vivid. While Palme often dazzled his listeners with his rhetorical brilliance, Carlsson's speeches tended to be as wooden as Swedish birch...