Word: mildest
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...interviews. But he said to me, "If we didn't cover cultural things, we wouldn't be covering you and The Mist, and promoting the movie." And I'm like, "Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan aren't cultural." They aren't political. They're economic only in the mildest sense of the word. In fact, if I had to pick somebody, some celebrity who has had some impact this year, some sort of echo in the larger American life, I would say Hannah Montana. That whole issue of online ticket sales and scalping fascinates me. There are [legitimate] issues there...
Alternatively, says study author Dr. Jonathan Parsons, it could be that exercise-induced asthma represents the mildest end of an asthma continuum, and that these athletes are actually asthma sufferers who experience their symptoms only during intense exercise. "No one knows for sure," he says, "but we are now looking at people who have exercise-induced asthma and investigating the inflammatory cascade that happens in the airway, comparing people who have been diagnosed with [non-exercise-induced] asthma to people who don't have asthma, to understand what makes them different or the same...
...might be good for the planet if governments banned the use of sport-utility vehicles - or, for that matter, of all fossil fuels. Yet not only is it hard to sell outright prohibitions to voters, but the sad truth is that governments have a woeful record in even the mildest interventions. One of the most significant innovations in the last decade has been Europe's carbon-emission trading scheme: some 12,000 companies, responsible for more than half of the E.U.'s emissions, have been assigned quotas. Companies with unused allowances can then sell them; the higher the price...
...Even the mildest virus would slam the economy harder now than at any time in the past. That's because businesses--and hospitals--have improved efficiency to minimize slack. When absenteeism prevents one plant from shipping a part, or when a surge of patients overwhelms a hospital already understaffed because of sickness, massive disruptions result...
...years of Singapore's history when it was helmed by Lee senior. Singapore then had some of the world's highest economic-growth rates, but critics of the elder Lee claimed that he tried to control virtually every aspect of life in Singapore and was intolerant of even the mildest political dissent...