Word: mildness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan enters his sixth month in power, the has-beens have helped put Washington in a mild dither. For one thing, there are more of them around than ever before: three vigorous former Presidents, two former Vice Presidents, six former First Ladies, scores of former Cabinet officers and literally hundreds of their lesser aides and consultants. Some, like Jimmy Carter, have been discreetly silent. Nonetheless, the has-beens form an army of sorts that marches through the hearing rooms. the banquet halls and the panel shows. leaving its public assessments of Reagan and its private disagreements with what...
Paradoxically, the Socialists may also have benefited from the economic prosperity achieved under their center-right predecessors. Not only was France's 12.5% inflation and 7.2% unemployment still comparatively mild, by world standards, but more important, the country has one of Europe's most dynamic and resilient economies. Over the past 13 years, for example, the growth of the gross national product has averaged 4.2%, compared with West Germany's 3.5% and the U.S.'s 2.7%. In the industrialized world, only Japan has a higher rate of investment and savings. Yet the very success of France's state-led capitalist...
...contended that the U.S. should wait for Arab reaction, rather than run the unlikely risk of appearing harsher than Israel's Middle East neighbors. Others were worried lest any U.S. condemnation might coincide awkwardly with an Arab reprisal mission against Israel. On Sunday night the group drafted a mild statement to be issued as soon as the news broke. It stressed that the U.S. had no prior knowledge of the attack, which was blandly described as "a very serious development and a source of utmost concern...
...assassination of the popular leader, who had retired from the military in 1977 in order to take office as President and lead Bangladesh back to civilian rule, left a power vacuum in the poverty-stricken country that acting President Abdus Sattar, 75, a mild-mannered moderate, was not likely to fill for long...
...participated in the San Francisco conference that founded the U.N. in 1945 and then, nearly a quarter of a century later, became the first career diplomat to serve as U.S. ambassador to the organization (1969-71); of cancer; in Washington. Nicknamed "the Gray Ghost" because of his mild, unassuming manner, he was a seasoned troubleshooter whose service over four decades in capitals from Vienna to Vientiane earned him the Foreign Service's highest honor, the title of Career Ambassador...