Word: milde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Antibiotechnology activists were infuriated with Strobel's actions and with his mild punishment. They claim that scientists could unwittingly unleash destructive mutant bacteria into the environment, a worry that is considered alarmist by most scientists. Says Jeremy Rifkin, a Washington lobbyist: "We cannot expect the scientists to police themselves. They feel they are above...
...Republican side, both Bush and Dole, never known as visionaries, are still cautiously waiting to reveal their policy positions. The challenge for Bush is particularly acute: he must forge a mild Declaration of Independence from the President without risking his claim as rightful heir. And as outsiders in a two-man race, Kemp and du Pont can afford to be outspoken as they vie for the allegiance of the conservative faithful...
Even the most mild mannered of these new movies, Withnail and I, is a shock to our expectations. American literati are, after all, conditioned to share the Lake poets' faith in the restorative powers of the pastoral: the thatch tight on the cottage roof, the peat glowing on the grate, the cattle posing for a painting by Constable. The vision is especially poignant if you are as deeply down as was the "and I" of the title (played by Paul McGann) and as angrily out as his roommate Withnail (Richard E. Grant) when they were aspiring actors in London...
Farfetched? Not when you consider that 1987 has become the year of the Great Debate Spate. The seven Democratic contenders have already traded mild jabs on PBS and C-Span. Two more Democratic events are scheduled for September. On the Republican side, Moderator William Buckley will toss out the first bon mot on Oct. 28, when all six G.O.P. contenders, including an initially reluctant Vice President George Bush, appear on Firing Line...
Aquino will undoubtedly face strong pressure to deal harshly with the mutineers, if only to discourage other plotters. In the past the President has treated rebellious soldiers leniently. After the Manila Hotel coup, for instance, the participants received a ridiculously mild punishment: 30 push- ups. But this time Aquino's credibility is on the line. Says a sympathetic Filipino scholar: "Everybody is waiting for the President finally to put her foot down...