Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Self-scrutiny by the press has grown in recent years, partly as a response to the Nixon Administration's efforts to discredit journalists. The monthly [More] is perhaps the most tendentious practitioner of the new criticism. Its circulation is modest (15,000), but it at tracts a number of salty, savvy contributors who regularly needle their colleagues in the trade for specific failings...
...Americans will become a constant, like the number of degrees in a triangle. Instead, the future U.S. population is likely either to fluctuate around a base point as it seeks equilibrium, like tides around a mean high-water mark, or continue to increase, but at rates even more modest than today...
Tight Money. Politics aside, the argument for urgency is persuasive. Last week the Government revealed that business capital spending, which had been expected to increase by between 13% and 18% for the year and help soften any recession, had risen by a modest 6.5% through the first half. General Motors Chairman Richard C. Gerstenberg predicted a mere 5% sales gain for the auto industry in the 1975-model year beginning this month-cold cheer, since 1974-model sales were disastrously...
...notion of at least a modest increase in public-service jobs got a nod last week from Labor Secretary Peter Brennan. In a television interview, he favored a $1 billion program to create 200,000 jobs if the unemployment rate reaches 6% (it was 5.4% in August). Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns is an ardent backer of an even bigger plan...
...possible that he would accept this near obliteration. He was always insistent that he wrote for the day and did not understand colleagues who were employed by "posterity." Although he knew his full worth in terms of a publisher's contract, he was a modest, self-effacing man who never forgot his roots or upgraded his accent. He was born in 1867 in Burslem, one of the "Five Towns" in the industrial north of England from which he drew almost all his best material. His family had just struggled out of the potteries to a tenuous hold...