By comparison, today's tight labor market could look benign.
But a few economists pointed out that a lot of people are leaving the labor force for more benign reasons, like retiring or going to college.
They warn that increases in unit labor costs associated with this more benign stagflation will also cut into corporate earnings.
But until the labor force starts growing properly again, or somebody provides a convincing benign explanation for why it shouldn't, it will be too early to say that the economy is truly returning to sound health.
In other words, what we're seeing here is more than a benign, demographic trend; it's a trend that is also a function of weak labor demand failing to pull people into to the job market.
Samples were collected from infants delivered by elective Caesarean section (CSCB; n = 18) due to benign causes such as breech presentations, or by vaginal delivery with spontaneous onset of labor (VDCB; n = 20).
Zack Matus, a spokesman for the laborers union, said that despite the potential benefits to organized labor from the energy policy, the Bush administration's attitude toward unions had been "neglect, and it's nowhere close to benign neglect".
He distrusted labor and other populist social movements; he hoped instead that reform would come at the hands of benign elites wielding the tools of what he considered "disinterested" social science.
Even the labor market, which has registered unemployment of 5.5% or less for over a year, has been rather benign.; But don't let all this good news lull you into complacency.
In the event of spontaneous labor, the FHR changes during uterine contractions may be informative; early decelerations imply bradycardia coinciding with contractions, and are benign.
