Word: tame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although four distinct seasons were once a source of regional pride, many Cantabrigians now seem somewhat ambivalent about the recent tame winters...
...business excellence." The country is the world's busiest container port, the third largest oil-refining center, the major exporter of computer disk drives. Its manufacturing relies on multinational corporations, and it has attracted some 3,000 foreign companies with generous tax breaks, ultramodern telecommunications, an efficient airport and tame labor unions...
Besides their relatively tame demeanor, domestic animals make life a lot easier on food providers like Owen and Baker...
...that's just the tame stuff. On any given morning, The Howard Stern Show might feature a game called Guess the Jew, in which callers try to pick the Semitic celebrity from a choice of three. Or a good-looking actress might show up in the studio and set off Stern's riotous hormones. (To Sally Kirkland: "I'm completely aroused by you . . . You wearin' underpants?") Stern demeans women, insults blacks, makes fun of the handicapped. Comedian Richard Pryor, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, should come on as a guest, says Stern, so they can "watch...
...striving to become the world's first smoke- free city. In this socially engineered ministate, where smoking has been under assault for two decades, cigarettes are strictly banned in nearly every public place, vending machines are outlawed, and tobacco companies are not allowed to sponsor public events. To tame the 16% of the adult population that still smokes, the government may even end the practice in bars...