The senior American commander in Iraq has ordered the first punishments in the abuse of prisoners by American soldiers there, issuing severe reprimands to six who served in supervisory positions at Abu Ghraib prison and a milder "letter of admonishment" to a seventh.
The President prepared a reply in which he expressed himself strongly to Chapman, but Bigelow persuaded him to substitute a milder letter over Bigelow's signature, defending the new coins.
He declined to describe the punishment, but officials said nonjudicial sanctions could be as mild as a letter of reprimand.
Some patients showed mild impairments on orthographic letter matching and lexical decision tasks from the PALPA battery (Kay et al. 1992).
So by wading into the great amude debate, Dr Senaratne was perhaps fortunate to get off with a mild roasting in the letters pages.
Instead, problems tend to be resolved with mild sanctions like warning letters, refunds or, occasionally, as at Fort Benning, a temporary suspension of agents, who are then free to move to another base.
"I think my open letter is quite mild," he told me.
When did we decide that even a mild activity, like mailing a letter, requires a backpack with plastic bottle of water to "stay hydrated"?
Profanities of four letters, even comparatively mild ones, were not yet permissible in publications of general circulation.
His wife -- played by Phylicia Rashad, his co-star from "The Cosby Show" -- indulges his antics with a warm, beneficent smile in a slow bombardment of reaction shots....Cosby has long been a militant opponent of smutty humor....he has said that "Cosby" will not use any four-letter words, even mild ones.
