Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the arm wrestlers are mild-mannered men like Joe who are not much used to the spotlight. They are the kind of people who may have frustrations but have learned how to bury those frustrations beneath a veneer of placidity. Still, those frustrations are there, simmering, and it is arm wrestling that gives them their release. Which is why Emcee Jones is nervous. He doesn't like to see arm wrestlers get tense. He speaks into the microphone. He tells the competitors that there will be an hour break so they can go outside to watch the "Teenie...
...America has run up a foreign debt of about $250 billion. Economists across a broad spectrum of ideological positions warn almost with one voice that this situation is precarious in the extreme. Foreigners will not continue forever to finance American profligacy, and the stock-market crash was a relatively mild foretaste of what could happen if they pull their money out. The nation would then face a grim choice of financing the deficit by ruinous printing-press inflation or a sudden, brutal cutback in spending that might trigger a real economic bust...
...event, Iowa voters were in no mood to be patronized on the economy, as Pete du Pont learned to his mild distress. Visiting a weekly newspaper in Onawa, du Pont depicted the stock market crash as a "vote of no confidence" by millions of small investors who did not like the presidential front runners in either party. Loren Sawyer, 27, whose mother publishes the paper, was not about to let that comment pass unchallenged. "I didn't know small, grass- roots investors pulled out," said Sawyer. "I thought it was the investment banks and large firms that panicked." Du Pont...
...gulf states and more vocal support from West European allies and even from Congress, where the Senate has been eager to enhance Congress's role in deciding gulf policy. One senior Pentagon officer said the attack on the oil platforms, though seen by some of his colleagues as too mild, was "as much as we could do to the Iranians while doing the least possible to the Congress." The Senate passed a resolution supporting the retaliation by a 92-to-1 vote. Majority Leader Robert Byrd ! called the action "minimal and appropriate...
...whole library kinda `glows' with good intentions. The acting has its ups and downs. Lee Thomsen plays the lead role of Elwood with a warm, welcoming smile frozen on his face from beginning to end, and while the smile effectively establishes beyond a doubt that Elwood is sweet and mild-mannered, his character lacks depth and soon grows cartoonish. If Elwood is to hold our attention, he also needs charisma...