Word: tame
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...Center for Earthquake Research and Information at Memphis State University. Fortunately, when the earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 occurred, the New Madrid region was too sparsely populated to suffer significant damage or injuries. A modern-day replay, however, would make the quake that shook San Francisco last year seem tame. That tremor measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. In contrast, the big quakes that rumbled forth from New Madrid may have exceeded 8.0, or about 10 times that strong...
...fault we lost," shot one campaigner. Others were less tame in their comments, smearing the politicians on screen with expletives and harshly personal comments...
...review of Social Analysis 10 was tame, favorable except for passing criticisms of Marty Feldstein's politics, of the pace of the course, and of the lack of coordination among the Eastern Europe lecturers (a nicely done box, by the way). The write-up on the department as a whole is without meat, making only a few points of which only two are critical--that Economics 1125 has not worked in the past and that the department allows you to take larger and/or easier courses and does not force you to take the smaller and more difficult ones...
Still, it began to look as if Iraq's gamble had been an audacious miscalculation. Standing together against Saddam, every major world power worked in unprecedented concert to tame his renegade ambitions. The U.N. Security Council voted without dissent for record, tough economic sanctions -- mandatory for all U.N. members -- aimed at strangling Saddam until he released Kuwait from his grip. As added encouragement, and to dissuade the Iraqi bully from pushing any farther into the Arabian peninsula, various navies began to crowd the Persian Gulf as well as the Mediterranean, Red and Arabian seas. They were well placed to enforce...
This rhetoric, while tame by the standards of the 1988 campaign, comes at an odd moment: two new reports last week showed the budget deficit widening to as much as $200 billion. Only last month, Bush invited leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill to join him in budget talks, in which all participants could propose necessary but unpopular tax increases and spending cuts without fear of political attack. Bush wants a bipartisan budget agreement to get himself off the hook of his most famous campaign pledge: to cut the deficit without raising taxes. Yet his renewed donkey bashing makes...