Tamsin Garrity at UBS took a slightly more benign view on Friday, forecasting July down perhaps 5% and August flat.
Richard Curtis, a New York agent and longtime observer of the publishing scene, takes a slightly more benign view.
In fact, the drawings call to mind a slightly more benign Ralph Steadman, and in one or two places the children's faces resemble the evil doll Chucky in the "Child's Play" movies.
I was starting to resemble a cross between Mario Testino and a slightly more benign version of Geraldine McEwan's mother in the TV adaption of Jeanette Winterson's novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
We raise our 2013 estimates by 3% given the better economic data of late together with a slightly more benign currency environment than previously modelled, and we are comfortable sitting 6% ahead of consensus.
But it looks slightly more benign than his index-rattling efforts last month, when he said the Cyprus deposit-raid might be a blueprint for all future EU bailouts.
First, high genetic diversity coincided with slightly more benign (cooler) pre-heatwave conditions, possibly protecting these kelp forests against change (Fig. S4c, "H", open circle), whereas low diversity forests experienced warmer initial conditions, predisposing them to an abrupt population crash following the heat wave (Fig. S4c, "K", open circle).
Appropriately chastened by Dr. Hark's dire predictions, the parents (a few of whom, though the show does not dwell on this, look like only slightly more benign versions of the computer models) immediately sign on for Dr. Hark's three-week boot camp, in which she lays down some draconian rules about diet and exercise and then drops by to check on observance.
In short, the dynamical mean-field approach reduces the complexity of the full Hubbard model to an effective single-site system which is a slightly more benign many-body problem to solve.
Within 20 minutes, it was changed to the slightly more benign, "One way to end violence against women?
