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Included in the College's definition of "Festive entertainment" was dameing (for which suspension of the mild degredation were the punishments) foregone the dining hall pudding (served with every meal) to eat out in Cambridge taverns or victualling houses, and getting drunk on the alcohol one didn't have in his room...
These are not frills; they are some of the variables in the main expense of a trip abroad, and variable is a mild word for all the complicated deals being offered in the deregulated air-travel marketplace. To fly from New York City to just one specific city, Athens, by just one specific airline, TWA, the 18 different possibilities range in price from $719 to $999. Meanwhile, twelve competing airlines offer their own cornucopias of deals for the same route...
...debate of the meek or mild, and in recent weeks the opposing voices have grown increasingly strident. "I think corporate raids are an outrage and a bloody scandal," says Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO. "The object is for somebody to make a killing, pure and simple, and I see no virtue in it at all." Counters Minneapolis Investor Irwin Jacobs, who has made runs at targets as varied as ITT and Disney Productions: "We're really not a bunch of big, bad wolves. Mergers and acquisitions have created a great deal of value...
...replies that "there is no such thing as guaranteed public support in advance." The lesson Shultz draws from Viet Nam is that "public support can be frittered away if we do not act wisely and effectively." And this open dispute between two senior members of the Reagan Cabinet is mild compared with the arguments among policy analysts, Viet Nam veterans and the public about what kinds of wars can be won or even deserve public support in the first place...
Because the Iranian air force has only a few frontline aircraft left, Tehran's response to the Iraqi air war has been mild. Tehran threatened to attack Baghdad airport and close the airspace over the gulf, but so far it has done neither. Iran did continue its shelling of Iraqi cities with heavy artillery, however, and last week two large explosions shook Baghdad, killing at least 20 people. Iraqi officials believe that of four major blasts in Baghdad over the past two weeks, two or three were triggered by terrorist bombs; the fourth was apparently caused by an Iranian surface...