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Similarly, participation in the "PC hegemony" requires almost nothing. A member of the "PC hegemony" need only show the mildest advocacy of a liberal cause, use a gender-neutral term, recycle white paper or enroll in a course like "African-American Women Writers" to oppress the anti-PC forces...
...welder Lois Robinson, who accused her employer of ignoring the display of pornographic images and condoning the routine verbal abuse of the six females among the 846 skilled-crafts employees. Robinson and two other women testified that they endured a barrage of comments from their male peers, perhaps the mildest of which was "I'd like to get in bed with that." The offending photos, many of which came from calendars provided by tool-supply companies, included a nude woman bending over with her buttocks and genitals exposed, a nude female torso with USDA CHOICE written...
...same time, the decision ruffled right-wingers who steadfastly oppose even the mildest forms of minority-preference programs and who are already unhappy with Bush for his retreat on taxes, among other things. Jeered John Scully of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation: "We've had everything on this except another 'Read my hips' statement...
Malathion spraying, the agency argues, is a necessary supplement to "biotechnical control," which consists of releasing 140 million sterile male medflies weekly into infested areas to disrupt the insects' prodigious reproduction. Malathion, state officials insist, is the mildest available pesticide. Though the chemical is toxic to the skin and respiratory system in concentrated doses, officials say, it is quite harmless in the diluted (2.8 ounces per acre) form used in spraying...
Occasionally, I receive letters with obscene words and drawings. There are threats, the mildest being a pledge to beat my face in. Our weekly magazine is criticized in a newspaper that from force of habit no one dares argue with: * Pravda. The fear caused by this newspaper is supposed to be so deep and basic that it is ten times greater than other fears...