Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the end comes and access roads to Scott Meadows are dynamited, what happens to the members of the Doomsday Club [Aug. 4] who have been delayed en route? If they don't make it inside before the explosion are they refunded their "modest" $12,500 membership...
...mixed bag of actions. The Soviets let the U.S. Government know that they want to buy additional U.S. grain in quantities that-if the sales were permitted-would be very inflationary. President Ford decided finally to permit removal of controls on oil prices, gambling that increases will be relatively modest, and General Motors announced boosts in car prices smaller than in the past two years, but still substantial. Details...
...percentage of industrial capacity in use, rather than from a sampling of corporation reports to stockholders, Data Resources Inc.'s president Otto Eckstein estimates that second-quarter after-tax earnings of all U.S. companies rose 3.4% above the first three months. Standard & Poor's Corp. calculates a modest 3.7% decline. Still, S. & P. Economist Richard Scruggs believes the second quarter probably marked "the end of the drop" in corporate earnings...
...shovels, worth about $30 million, Marion failed to line up financing in the U.S. The Soviets then turned to Marion's Japanese licensee, which had been able to arrange a low-interest government loan for the Soviets. All that Marion will get from the deal is a relatively modest licensing...
...good chance" may seem a very modest resurrection for so much suffering. Like the old Armenians, Arlen is making another wager: on stoicism as the proper response to despair. It is both an honorable bet and a long shot - the only arguable portion of a unique and grieving book...