Though, not surprisingly, he demurred on that subject, Scott Gilman, director of business development for a software company in Boston, said the potential for raised eyebrows over his hotel bill keeps him from ordering even benign pay-per-view movies very often.
Now, says Sweetin, all that benign neglect paid off, because they went into the new show with a blank slate.
In the past, benign employers raised pay to keep pace with the cost of living, and if they did not, trade unions organised strikes to meet the need.
It is unclear whether the border guards are fooled by clever attempts to disguise the shipments as benign or are paid to turn a blind eye, or both.
Ginsberg, meanwhile, became a beloved and quite benign public figure, paying tribute to his friend's memory by helping to found the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colo.
The greatest danger is if America is no longer ready to play America -- the benign superpower that pays a disproportionate price to maintain the system of which it's the biggest beneficiary.
Instead of exclusively trading virulence off with host-to-host transmission, pathogens could also improve their performance within the hosts by being more benign, or they might pay an evolutionary cost of adapting to fluctuations between within-host and non-host situations.
Since the late 1990s when the ANC government first made unsuccessful proposals for the role of traditional leaders to be paid but benign guardians of tradition, it has pursued a path which sought to contain and incorporate traditional leaders into the governance structures at local level.
There's "benign envy," in which you pay attention to superiors in order to emulate them, so as to raise your own standing.
But each of the other firms believed that its behavior had been relatively benign and that it should not pay more than any other.
Seemingly benign actions -- how much you pay your employees or which charities you support -- are manifestations of your own unique interpretation of what dignity and rights mean.
