Word: mild
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...which makes American presidential elections a competition in mythmaking. What exactly did the first George Bush do that made him responsible for the mild recession of 1991 that cost him the election of 1992? Today the Democratic mantra is that the second George Bush has cost the economy nearly 3 million jobs. (The numbers keep changing. It is now down to 1.8 million jobs lost.) However, 94% of net job losses to date occurred during the first year of the Bush Administration. Can anyone seriously argue that an Administration that had barely come into office and whose economic plan...
...foreign ministers voted to ease Turkish Cypriots' economic isolation, provide j259 million in aid, and open the new de facto E.U. border on the island to Turkish Cypriot goods. But Turkey wants a bigger prize. In Cologne last week, Erdogan pressed Turkey's case with a mixture of mild warnings and warm reassurances. Shutting Turkey out could encourage anti-Western forces in his country, he said, adding that Turkey would not be a burden to the E.U. "but a new stimulus for economic dynamism." Erdogan's desire to join the E.U. is rooted in economics - even the start of negotiations...
Within a year of taking their friend's advice, the couple had christened C&G Salsa. Their journey from kitchen to supermarket aisle has paid off handsomely. Crazy Charlie's Salsa--hot, medium and mild--is now in 87 Kroger stores in Indiana and Illinois. Charlie, a 27-year veteran of General Motors, is planning to retire in three years and devote all his energies...
...flames with intemperate attacks. He was vilified in Scientific American magazine. He was found guilty of "scientific dishonesty" by a national committee of Danish scientists (the verdict was later overturned). With each attack, sales of his book boomed. And try as they might, the critics could not paint this mild-mannered, bicycle-riding, leftish vegetarian as a corporate apologist...
...fact, though, this is rumored to be a new Steve Miller Band, and no one seems to know who's in it, besides Steve, and how many there are, but it's for sure that the quality's fallen off over the years. Miller's got a good, mild blues voice, and I imagine he's maintained a following, but I sure wish I could've seem him five years...