Word: mildness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...status quo. A survey conducted last year revealed that upperclassmen find that living in a house they selected as freshmen has little bearing on their ultimate satisfaction with the house. It seems a small price to pay considering an ideal alternative, that of all 12 houses gaining a continual, mild influx of the community diversity Harvard so proudly invokes...
Purdy set his station wagon afire with a gasoline-filled beer bottle. Then the man described in a 1987 police report as suffering from "mild mental retardation" walked toward the school yard. At least 300 pupils, mostly kindergartners through third-graders, were enjoying their lunchtime recess. Impassively, Purdy squeezed the trigger of his rifle, then reloaded, raking the yard with at least 106 bullets. As children screamed in pain and fear, Purdy placed a 9-mm pistol to his head and killed himself. When the four- minute assault was over, five children, ages 6 to 9, were dead. One teacher...
When the elder Tsutsumi died in 1964, the two brothers inherited dramatically different amounts and parts of their father's empire, parts that fit their sharply divergent personalities and amounts that apparently reflected the feelings between father and sons. The cultured and mild-mannered Seiji, the son of Yasujiro's wife Misao, has established himself as a novelist and an award-winning poet whose early literary work sometimes suggested filial embarrassment and even enmity...
COME on. Admit it. Your Great Distaste for the Great Communicator has evolved, after eight years, into a mild appreciation, even a fondness. On his way out the door, Ronald Reagan knows he has charmed nearly everyone at the party...
...that pace keeps up, the Fed may boost interest rates to restrain growth. Says Sinai: "The Fed has already tried to introduce a mild dose of tightening to slow the economy. But it just isn't working so far." Interest rates have been steadily climbing since March. The federal funds rate, which is the interest that banks charge one another on overnight loans, has increased from 6.5% to nearly 9.5% during the past nine months. Economists polled by TIME estimate that the prime lending rate will climb from its current 10.5% to 11% by June but will end the year...