Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Because most of it has lobe imported from more fertile countries, food is subsidized by the government and is relatively cheap. General home loans are available, and medical care and education through university level are underwritten by the government. With gas selling at a modest 13? a gallon at service stations, it is not surprising that auto imports tripled last year...
...compared with 12.3% in December 1973. If these projections are correct, the Liberals will topple the Social Democrats from their position as Denmark's largest party. Hartling may then be able to constitute a coalition government strong enough to enact tough wage and price controls and continue his modest cutbacks on taxes and welfare...
...have New Vista Broadcasting Inc. in business by the end of January. Mosiello's corporate headquarters is in a dilapidated, 19th century building in Trenton, where the state of New Jersey required him to move in 1971. "The rent is right," says Mosiello, as he sits in his modest "office" -cell 105, 3 Tier, 6 Wing Right, Trenton State Prison. While other cons roam idly through 6 Wing, struggling with the numbing daily routine inside what they grimly call "the Wall," time rushes by for Hank Mosiello, No. 50622, a convict entrepreneur who does not need to be free...
...characteristic remark. The egomaniac was, in fact, a modest man. The vain Lothario had been married almost 50 years to the same woman. The skinflint was a great tipper...
...Established 4½ months ago with a mission to "monitor" prices but no authority to order rollbacks, the council seemed pusillanimous in its first effort of consequence: an unsuccessful attempt to jawbone big price reductions from sugar refiners early in December. But last week the council made a modest comeback. It got U.S. Steel to trim its recent price increases and pledge publicly to do its best to impose no new ones for at least six months...