Word: milde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University's mild moral tone has taken the shape of Harvard as mediator, attempting to get companies with South African investments to enforce the Sullivan principles...
...that have migrated from the breast tumor, thus halting the division of the cells and preventing them from seeding tumors in other parts of the body. Unlike conventional chemotherapy, which usually causes loss of hair and severe nausea, tamoxifen produces only minor side effects, such as hot flashes and mild nausea, and only in about one-quarter of patients...
While a falling dollar could boost U.S. inflation by raising import prices, the economists were confident that any increases will remain mild. They noted that labor costs, which make up some 65% of the retail value of most products, are continuing to rise at a modest pace. Raw material prices are also stable. The Labor Department reported last week that in August the Producer Price Index fell .3%, the sharpest decline in more than two years. Said Greenspan: "Overall, there is just no evidence of any acceleration of inflation...
...Though Copeland hoped that Drummond's problems might be caused by abnormal levels of blood sugar or the aftereffects of sleeping medication, he feared the worst. "I had to admit it to myself," he says, "but I didn't want to." A neurologist confirmed that Drummond had suffered a mild stroke, most probably from tiny blood clots forming in or around the artificial heart...
...collision seemed nothing more than a mild jolt. It felt, said Lady Cosmo Duff Gordon, "as though somebody had drawn a giant finger along the side of the ship." She started up in bed, but everything was quiet, so she lay back again. It was 11:40 p.m. Up in the first-class smoking room, where a group of young men were playing a last few rounds of cards, the grinding sound disturbed the game. Several of the players wandered out into the freezing night to take a look. "We hit an iceberg--there it is," somebody said...