Word: milde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applied directly to the surface of teeth to mask chips, discolorations and cracks, or even to conceal unattractive gaps between teeth. The procedure is simple, and can be performed by almost any dentist. The resins are painted on teeth that have first been prepared by the application of a mild acid solution. Next a layer of tooth-colored material is applied in the desired shape, then the coatings are hardened with either chemicals or a beam of ultraviolet light and polished. Bonding costs anywhere from $150 to $500 a tooth, one-third to one-half the price of crowns...
...Clear plastic braces, available for the past ten years, have made orthodontics more palatable to adults, who now account for 20% of the braces business. "Invisible," or lingual, braces, which are applied to the backs of teeth, are even less conspicuous, though some users complain of tongue irritation and mild speech problems...
...SENSE, the new proposals, adopted by the NCAA, mild as they are, signal a new day for college athletics. Yet, in another sense, these reforms are a sad commentary on a tarnished system for being to obvious and so late in coming. They were so obvious to President Bok that he didn't even bother going, sending Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 and Director of Athletics John P. Reardon '60 to act as "yes-men" for all the proposed changes...
...company's latest product introductions also seem to have been timed poorly. In February IBM unveiled its Sierra line, a family of mainframe computers to be delivered this fall. The announcement sharply curtailed sales of existing systems as prospective buyers waited for the new machines. IBM expected only a mild slowdown in such business...
...smoldering quarrel between the Fundamentalists and moderates intensified in 1969, when the S.B.C. Sunday School Board began issuing serially the multivolume Broadman Bible Commentary. The project was established to summarize Southern Baptist thinking. The 56 theologians involved made mild use of "higher criticism" (theorizing about literary sources underlying Bible texts), and the introduction to the series undermined the concept of inerrancy. In 1970 the annual convention forced a rewrite of the program's Genesis commentary to make it more conservative...