Word: tame
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Obama wants to be St. George. He wants to let the dragon into the court and then slay it. Or, at least, tame...
...Earl Dudley Associates in Birmingham, Ala., 10 fans do little to tame the 97-degree heat. Last weekend, four of the surveyor supply company's air conditioning units were mined for their copper coils. Six other businesses on their block languish with open doors, waiting for their air conditioner replacements. "I'd just like five minutes alone with the guys who did it," says sales manager Mike Smith, as he wiped sweat from his brow...
...While tame compared with the double-digit rises of the 1970s, oil prices are again the driving force behind inflation, with energy costs rising 31% at an annual rate so far in 2006. That ripples through the rest of the economy, showing up as fuel surcharges on services like airline tickets (up 7.9% so far this year) and higher prices on pretty much anything that travels before reaching a store. Even clothing has been inching up after months of deep discounting. "I wouldn't expect a lot of relief on gasoline prices," says Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan...
...life would be worth noting if he had done nothing more than get himself prosecuted by the Post Office Department both for publishing obscenity and for not publishing obscenity. (The not-publishing charge, of course, was mail fraud; Roth, as he did more often than not, had published some tame stuff, advertising that it heaved with passion, The P.O. felt that he should have kept his word, even if it was a dirty word...
...Countless other Indian medical workers who have gone on strike this week feel much the same as Sen, which is why India's sudden battle over affirmative action makes the ongoing divide in the U.S. over racial preferences seem tame by comparison. Public hospitals across the country have shut their doors to all but emergency services; private hospitals in some Delhi suburbs are following suit; trade unions have called for a morning of civil disobedience; and students at India's elite business schools are meeting to plan their own protests. In spite of the disruption, the government has sworn that...