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...close to being true. Fish of all kinds are being hauled from the sea faster than they can reproduce, but until quite recently sharks were exempt from this reckless harvest. Not anymore. Each year between 30 million and 100 million sharks are caught for their meat (boneless and mild-tasting), their fins (a great delicacy in Asia), their hides (source of an exotic, high-quality leather), their jaws (worth thousands of dollars from collectors) and their internal body parts (made into everything from lubricants to cosmetics to "health" products of dubious value...
Unfortunately, it takes longer to rebuild a fishery than it does to ruin one. Consider the present state of the orange roughy on New Zealand's Challenger Plateau. Discovered in 1979, this deep-water fishing hole took off in the 1980s when the mild-tasting, white-fleshed fish became popular with U.S. chefs. Happy to stoke the surging demand, fishermen are believed to have reduced the biomass of orange roughy as much as 80% before officials stepped in. Now, says Yale University ichthyologist Jon Moore, it may take centuries before the fishery rebounds. As scientists have belatedly learned, orange roughy...
Helms does require constant coddling. After a mild Washington Post piece last week quoted Democrats criticizing Senate Republicans for not confirming appointees more quickly, Helms took to the floor to tongue-lash the Administration. Republicans might wonder if such a man should hold all of them hostage to his whims and grudges. And if by some miracle Weld's use of force works, perhaps Albright will see that playing footsie with an ideological extortionist is a losing game--and rather than wink at Helms, take...
...this is not about getting my house wired for 500 channels. It's about a heroic investor who plugs into the cable industry and single-handedly rescues one of the decade's most imperiled collections of stocks. Who is this new-age superhero? None other than Supergeek, a.k.a. the mild-mannered computer kingpin, Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft. Last week, after Gates agreed to pump $1 billion into Comcast Corp., Wall Street revalued the entire industry upward by tens of billions of dollars. A buyers' panic rippled through the cable world, and the Standard & Poor's index of cable stocks...
...classes at which he is pathetically inept, and it is ages before his dream girl agrees to help him (in a lovely montage scored to the Drifters' Save the Last Dance for Me). As he practices his steps--at his desk, in the subway, under a bridge in the mild rain --the zombie is revived. "Every day I feel so alive," he says. "Even being tired feels great." His rejuvenation lasts one act too many, but it has a satisfying payoff, to the tune of guess-which Rodgers and Hammerstein tune. For a beguiling summer movie treat, bring hankies...