Word: mildness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House Ways and Means subcommittee last week voted 17 to 4 to reject the fee; and the Senate Finance Committee turned it down 14 to 4. Members of Congress are not happy about running a budget deficit, but they are much more frightened by the prospect of even a mild gasoline tax in an election year...
Seeing this, Jamaica defied the IMF. Prime Minister Manley had agreed in 1978 to follow the IMF conditions for a loan. But by 1979 the economy had not improved under mild austerity procedures. So in January, Manley went back to the IMF to ask for another loan. The IMF told him to lay off 11,000 workers and cut his budget by $85 million. Manley refused. There was nothing left to do but resign and call for new elections later in the year...
Other reports provided reassurance that many well-publicized side effects of prescription drugs are, in fact, mild. University of Pennsylvania Psychiatrist Karl Rickels told of a one-year study showing that Valium addiction is rare and comparatively easy to overcome. T. Alan Ramsey, also of Penn, challenged the view that lithium can damage kidneys, charging that such reports were based on uncontrolled studies that failed to allow for infection or other causes of disability...
...order to evade pursuing Empire fighters, Solo runs through a perilous asteroid field. "They'd be crazy to follow us in here," he says. Eventually, they find what they think is refuge in a city in the clouds ruled by Solo's old friend in mild skulduggery, Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams...
...sink still further, with the prime rate at perhaps 10% to 12% by year's end. This is due largely to the weakening economy. Alan Greenspan, former chief economist for President Ford, observes: "The U.S. has moved rapidly into a severe recession. The hopes that it would be mild and of short duration appear to be precisely that-hopes...