Word: mildered
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...policy is probably typical of the industry, maybe a little milder than some. We're a fairly big company so we don't have the cash-flow problems a smaller company might have," Slifka said...
Having indulged in these flourishes, LÓpez Portillo turned milder at a concluding press conference. The Mexican leader, who is actually relatively conservative, admitted that "the cause of the problem is our own," and added that he was "deeply satisfied with the results of this meeting." It was hard to believe Jimmy Carter could...
...conference, are close friends. They are also competitors and over the past several years have tried, with limited success, to top each other at composing limericks. The result of their 1978 Shootout is a book in which each offers 144 of the five-liners. One of Ciardi's milder offerings reads: "Said a voice from the back of the car,/ 'Young man, I don't know who you are./ But allow me to state,/ Though it may come too late,/ I had not meant to go quite this far.' " An Asimovian retort goes: "There is something...
...wish me milder...
...recession than any that might be forced by dollar-propping action. As William Fellner, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, noted, "The risk of getting a recession that would occur earlier was increased [by the dollar-rescue program], but so were the chances that the recession would be milder than expected...