Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Modest Rebellion. The elite, who since independence have been the stewards-and the main beneficiaries-of Indian democracy, are beginning to feel that the changes of 1975 will be permanent, or at least long-lasting. Perhaps the country's most unhappy lot (apart from the thousands who are still being detained without trial) is the now-shackled press. Somnambulant since June, it was stung to modest rebellion by harsh new controls in early December, which among other things abolished the right of newspapers to report parliamentary debate without restriction, a privilege they had enjoyed for 19 years. The result...
...more modest than the magazines is the Daytime Serial Newsletter ($8 per year; 20,000 subscribers), put out monthly by Bryna Laub, a California housewife. With eight television sets in her house, she tapes each show for later transcription. The idea for Newsletter was her husband's: after Bryna had spent hours on the phone updating her working women friends on their favorite serials, he cried in frustration, "Why tell them for free...
...yearbook of Connecticut's elite Chaffee School predicted that Ella Rosa Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, the Italian immigrants' daughter who was there on scholarship, would become the first woman mayor of her home town, Windsor Locks, Conn. That was much too modest a forecast. As a young wife and mother, with a Phi Beta Kappa key and M.A. in economics from Mount Holyoke, Ella Grasso was elected to the state assembly in 1952. Captivated by her drive and political savvy, Democratic Boss John Bailey took her on as a speechwriter and adviser. Bailey once told her, she recalls, that "the only...
...money be collected? That, said New York Assistant Attorney General Gus Harrow at week's end, "is our headache, not the court's." Both Stamos and Levine are men of modest means, and though Bernard Reis owns a Manhattan town house and an art collection, it is not likely that more than a fraction of the $9 million could be extracted from...
...foreign workers to stave off unemployment among citizens, but its recovery is dependent on the renewed health of its big trading partners. Sweden, which long seemed immune to recession, has started on a slide that is expected to result in zero growth this year. By contrast, Denmark achieved modest expansion during 1975, and Norway is being buoyed by prospects of soon becoming a sizable oil producer. The Norwegian economy grew a respectable 5.1% this year, and unemployment amounts to only an insignificant 1.4% of the labor force...