Most economists expect the recovery to be moderate, largely because the recession has been mild and consumer spending has remained strong, leaving little room for spending to accelerate.
More federal dollars to education and science (liberal) coupled with mild restraint in spending increases elsewhere (conservative).
If that continues, as the Bank of Japan's monetary easing gradually replaces deflation with mild inflation, households' spending-power will shrink, bringing the recovery to a halt.
Field experience revealed that it was very hard for a person of working-age with mild hypertension to spend time on check-ups.
Strong exports and a mild rebound in domestic spending drove China's economic growth rate to 8.2percentt in the third quarter, the government reported today.
The economic concern now centers on the question of whether the American consumer, whose buying played a major role in making last year's recession a mild one, can keep spending.
But Japan's distressed banks still seem to be applying a mild brake on business spending: central-bank surveys suggest that most small businessmen find their bankers unusually tight-fisted.
If the mortgage-equity link is weaker than expected, then falling house prices may have a milder effect on consumer spending.
They spent a mild, snowless winter on the shores of the lake, in a camp named Hop ("tidal pool"), where there were fields of "self-sown" grain, streams teeming with fish, forests with deer and "vines growing on the hills".
