Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal food-stamp program, first created in 1962 as a modest $14 million experiment to help low-income families buy a "nutritionally adequate diet," has been a lifesaver for millions of destitute Americans. But it has also helped the not so destitute. In recent years the program has grown to astonishing size, in part because its slack eligibility requirements enable even moderately well-off people to qualify and make policing difficult. The system now subsidizes 19 million people, one out of every eleven Americans. Working families receiving stamps outnumber welfare households 55% to 45%. Conservatives, with Treasury Secretary William Simon...
...Ford Administration knows that it will have to work hard to get congressional approval of even modest Egyptian requests, and it is happy to have the articulate and personable Sadat on hand to sell himself. The President, in fact, is bringing his whole family-his wife, four children, and the husbands and fiance of his three daughters-to present an attractive picture on American television sets...
...attractive proposal because it provides an "opportunity for fresh approaches to both the freshman and the sophomore years," though the possibility of both a freshman and sophomore "ghetto" developing is not ignored. This option is also less costly then others because it allows "a modest increase in the size of the college with little new construction...
...Industrial production in September rose 1.9% above August, to 116.2% of the 1967 average. That is the largest gain for any month in almost eleven years. Steel, chemicals and other heavy industries led the advance, rising more than 3%; output of consumer goods gained a more modest...
...David Vishkover, for example, is not merely the richest tale in Passions, but one of the most provocative short fictions of the last decade. In his customary role, Sam Palka, self-made entrepreneur, swaggers through a career of indulgence. In off-hours he assumes the role of Vishkover, a modest sewing machine salesman who courts the unprepossessing Channah Basha. As the miserably married Palka, Sam owns the very building in which Channah lives; as the bachelor Vishkover, he is incapable of force or originality. But it is here that his best self survives, a peasant from the other side, unsophisticated...