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...lovely, mild day, and the line is about 150 people long. There are matronly women and miniskirted girls, jeans-clad students and a mustachioed man in black suit and white socks -- a peasant in his Sunday Mass outfit. Robert, from the town of Plock, is among those in line. "I came to seek a visa because in Poland, there are very limited prospects of acquiring anything by work," he says. "I expect a different existence in America. I make about $200 a month. I wonder whether anybody would work for $200 a month...
...party recently circulated a 108- page booklet to its members, with 21 suggestions on how to confront their nemesis. One example: "Prime Minister Hosokawa says things that are impressive and good, but it is questionable whether he can realize them." After last week's victory, even such mild cavils may have to be revised...
...since it so often bears pejorative connotations in the minds of the ignorant: I hope greatly to revise the usual conceptions of the phrase. The most common forms of mental illness are `uni-polar' depressions (meaning tending only toward a depressed rather than a manic state of mind) termed `mild' to `moderate' on the clinical scale-not severe enough to require in-patient treatment, but devastating nonetheless...
...troubled Daimler-Benz, which will carve 43,000 from its worldwide payroll over the next 14 months, 3,000 salaried employees agreed to mild concessions. They would accept Christmas bonuses at 60% of a month's wages, instead of 100%, and give up a cornucopia of fringe benefits such as reimbursement for a child's first Communion outfit. But getting real sacrifice is not so easy. To address the needs of an aging population, Kohl sought to finance long-term nursing care by dropping up to six days of the sick pay workers get. The idea provoked a minicrisis...
There is no scientific evidence that MSG causesany medical problem whatsoever, and according tothe Health Studies Collegium, an independent firm,only 3.8 percent of the population considersitself MSG sensitive. But some medical expertssuspect the additive of being a mild neurotoxinwhich can destroy nerve tissue in the brain andelsewhere...