Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason is European inflation. But, relatively, prices for Americans spending weakened U.S. currency are even higher. A single room at such hotels as Amsterdam's Hilton and Cologne's Inter-Continental now cost at least $50 a night, v. as low as $35 18 months ago. A modest dinner for two in Switzerland-cheese fondue and a bottle of wine-can run to $30. In Paris, peaches from Southern France sell for the equivalent of $8 each, and a cup of coffee rarely costs less than...
...Despite modest advances in the arts, science, show business, education and publishing, those gains have been impressive in other areas. Some examples...
...requirements for play are modest: an open space measuring 60 yds. by 45 yds., two teams of seven players, a clock to time the two 24-minute halves, and one $4.50 plastic Frisbee. Goals are scored by catching the Frisbee in the end zone, which can be as deep as the Frisbee flies-or the receiver cares...
...full year's supply of finished but unsold houses to dispose of. Automakers last week reported that sales during early May, normally a high point in the spring buying season, fell 21% below the already depressed levels of a year earlier. Thus Joseph Pechman and Nathan see very modest economic growth later this year and a moderate advance...
...Incentives. Okun, in addition, favors relatively modest new revenue-sharing aid to states and cities that are now being forced to lay off workers, cut services and raise taxes. In an unusual proposal for a staunch liberal, Nathan suggests special tax incentives to selected industries so that they could speed up investment in such things as oil-pipe plants and coal transport and build storage facilities to hold a year's stockpile of oil as insurance against another Arab embargo...