Word: milde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this process. It presumes discontinuity. It is not a gesture of homage to an esteemed original. In fact it does not agree that any image has more authority than any other. It is a response to a culture of reproduction. Its posture is a melange of acquiescence and mild pessimism: acquiescence in the thick smog of images now dumped on the eye by "high" and "low" culture alike, pessimism about painting's ability to pierce or dispel it with authentically rooted meanings...
Since he sold the first machine in 1970, Jones has manufactured some 400,000 of the devices. The company he owns, Nautilus Sports/Medical Industries (estimated 1984 sales: $300 million), has become the leading U.S. maker of exercise equipment. Jones, however, is even more extraordinary than his machine. No mild-mannered tinkerer, the gruff and often profane tycoon rules an unlikely empire that includes a menagerie of wild animals, two Boeing 707 jets and a $70 million television studio...
...tunes from Pop Singer Julio Iglesias and an interview in Spanish with Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda, who claimed that the island would have had a major league baseball team by now if it were not a Communist country. Most observers agreed that Radio Marti's material was mild compared with programs beamed to Cuba by several Miami-based Spanish-language stations, which routinely refer to Castro as a "tyrant" and "madman...
...export area, the Reagan Administration can claim that its cooperative approach has achieved mild success. Last year South Africa assured Washington that it would administer its nuclear program in line with the "spirit, principles and goals" that underpin the nuclear suppliers' trigger list. The Pretoria government promised that it would not supply nuclear technology, materials or equipment to any other country without International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards or the equivalent provided by the European atomic community, known as EURATOM...
...Pentagon punishments go, the penalties were rather mild. Tiny Alamo Aircraft Supply of San Antonio handed out hams and bottles of whisky to Government employees at Christmas, but the Pentagon last year ruled that those gifts were improper and barred the company from all Defense Department work for three years. Lehman's sanctions were not as strong as those recommended in April by Joseph H. Sherick, the Pentagon's inspector general. He had proposed suspending General Dynamics' top three officers from doing business with the Pentagon...