Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harder. Other politicians and economists are clamoring for a loosening up of fiscal as well as monetary policy. Says Harvard's Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "By early 1975, the recession is likely to be sufficiently severe that the moment for modest personal income tax reduction will be appropriate...
...grapes. Vintners who paid the growers $862 per ton for high-quality Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and White Riesling grapes last year are now paying only about $500. Retail price reductions for wine will be less dramatic than that because of swelling production costs. But there should be modest price cuts in the best California wines by next summer, when 1974 whites will begin to hit those overcrowded retail shelves. The reds, aged longer, should drop somewhat by the 1975 holiday season. A 15% price cut in Windsor wines has already increased sales...
...steelworkers, but they have begun to enjoy more of the amenities of middle class life. Bob Wingrove, 49, a miner for 27 years and the popular president of the U.M.W. local at the Ireland mine near Moundsville, speeds to work in a sports car, returns each evening to his modest frame house, which he is renovating. On days off, he drives to Pittsburgh, 90 minutes away on Interstate 79, for concerts or sporting events...
...Zurich last week, Solzhenitsyn demonstrated that even in exile he had no intention of allowing the Kremlin to destroy his influence. In his modest two-story home, he announced to the press the forthcoming publication of a volume of eleven essays designed to stir heated debate in the U.S.S.R...
...Houston and Belle Glade, Fla., according to the report, "it is assumed that a defendant has waived counsel unless he aggressively asserts .[the] right." In other jurisdictions, "defendants perceive, correctly or not, a tacit rule of court that those who ask for counsel are treated more harshly." Defendants of modest means are supposed to get free lawyers, but the financial screening can be arbitrary. In Birmingham, for example, center staffers found that the "posting of bail was used to declare a defendant financially ineligible" for free legal help...