Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response from New York was swift. "I don't think this Administration understands the problems of cities," snapped Mayor Abraham Beame. City Council President Paul O'Dwyer's protest was succinct: "Crass stupidity." Their irritation had some justification. While the city is trying to raise a modest $960 million to make ends meet this month, the U.S. Treasury is borrowing almost $6 billion. Indeed, Treasury Secretary William Simon has said he was "optimistic" that this year's federal deficit can be held to a mere $60 billion on a budget that will include $3.4 million...
...selections to sign Outfielder Rick Monday and Third Baseman Sal Bando. The next year he grabbed Reggie Jackson for $85,000. In 1968, the year Finley transplanted the A's to Oakland, he flew to Mansfield, La., to corral a high school fastballer named Vida Blue for a more modest $35,000. Three years ago, Bargain Hunter Finley paid $3,000 for an obscure 17-year-old named Claudell Washington. This year Washington is the A's leading hitter, batting .321 last week (TIME, July...
...Alameda County Coliseum (capacity: 50,000), a few minutes' drive from downtown Oakland, averages only 13,000 per game. Among the reasons: cold, foggy evenings, competition from the San Francisco Giants across the Bay, and Finley's own money-saving cutbacks on promotion. The result last year was a modest profit of $350,000. Much of that came from TV revenue plus play-off and World Series income...
...West could provide moral support; this would probably boost the moderates' standing in the eyes of the M.F.A. In fact, that was the maui purpose behind last weekend's meeting in Stockholm between Soares and Western Europe's leading Social Democrats, who have given his party modest financial support. Soares has also developed good relations with such pragmatic Communist bosses as Italy's Enrico Berlinguer and Spain's Santiago Carrillo, who are wary of Cunhal's Stalinist tendencies. The Soviet Union and other East European nations have been more active in supplying the Communists...
...what little new oil has been found since 1973, and their discoveries are unlikely to have a major impact on the nation's total supply during the next few years. The major producers, meanwhile, seem almost certain to drill less aggressively in areas where they believe only modest quantities can be found. Says Exxon Executive Vice President W.T. Slick Jr.: "We don't find it economical to drill in isolated locations or for small amounts...