Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion cut approved by the House. Under heavy pressure from the White House to act speedily to spur the nation's depressed economy, congressional leaders hope to present President Ford with a final tax package this week-ten weeks after he presented his own proposals for a more modest $16 billion tax rebate...
...modest man who keeps his private life so quiet that no one even knows whether he is married. Cunhal attributes the party's success to tireless organization. In Path to Victory, published in 1964, he wrote: "Those who witness great struggles by the masses . . . many times imagine that they appear by magic, as a result of spontaneous indignation of the people or perhaps through emotional appeals. The truth is that only through careful organization can they succeed...
...orchestration, on the other hand, was all his own. Not content with the modest range of tone color afforded by conventional instruments, P.D.Q. experimented widely with unusual sound. Few of his innovations made it into the mainstream of Western music, and few who heard the Serenoodle last weekend--with members of the Band's expanded percussion section playing police whistle, duck call popgun cowbell and highly anachronistic electric car horn--will wonder...
...sometimes acts as if the war were taking place in another country. Last week, for example, rumors circulated in Phnom-Penh for several days that he might resign, which could possibly pave the way toward some kind of negotiations with the Khmer Rouge insurgents. Instead, Lon Nol staged a modest Cabinet reshuffling and fired his arrogant commander in chief, Lieut. General Sosthene Fernandez, who is hated both for his corruption (his army payroll is inflated with fake names) and for refusing to take orders from the National Assembly. At the presidential palace, Lon Nol threw a champagne party for Fernandez...
Housing starts in January ran at an annual rate of 987,000 v. 2.5 million in January 1973. Yet some surveys indicate that a modest upturn is likely. The Manhattan consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan forecasts that the pace of housing starts could hit 1.4 million by year's end. Many of these predictions assume that cuts in federal taxes and a decline in the rate of price increases will put consumers in a more confident home-buying mood. Whether those assumptions are correct could have critical significance. A resurgence in housing has been a leading force in lifting...