Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the forecast of modest achievements, Carter went to Vienna visibly excited. He told aides that he had looked forward to meeting Brezhnev more than almost anything else during his years as President, and he spent an unprecedented amount of time preparing for the encounter. He phoned Richard Nixon, who had signed SALT I in Moscow in 1972, for advice on how to deal with Brezhnev. Gerald Ford came by the White House to suggest that if Brezhnev became blustery, as he did at Vladivostok in 1974, Carter should respond politely but firmly and not retreat an inch. CIA Director...
This sense of community and camaraderie was the flip side of Western individualism. Most people risked pioneering not to get rich quick or to build vast empires but to find modest lives that might be more congenial than the ones they had left in the East or in Europe. In his best films Wayne, for all the machismo he displayed, only rarely played a loner-a scout or gun fighter. More often he appeared as a soldier, lawman or rancher, a man acting in concert with others to create order where formerly there had been emptiness or anarchy...
Typically, Evans is now the most vocal of a small (but not modest) band of experts who assert that the U.S. is already in recession. That conflicts with the views of most other economists, who expect the slump to start this summer. In one of his last reports for Chase Econometrics, a computerized forecasting service that he is leaving in September, Evans notes that housing starts, retail sales, personal income and especially new durable goods orders have either slowed or fallen sharply. His conclusion: "You can't have an 8½% drop in new orders in one month...
Amid all this uncertainty, the Administration got a rare piece of good news on inflation. May's wholesale prices rose a modest .4%, vs. .9% in April, the smallest increase in nine months. The main reason: a drop in food prices, including beef, because of a decline in consumption. But food prices may resume their rise because crop-killing rains in the Midwest could tighten supplies of corn and wheat, and OPEC's continuing oil price rises will further fire up inflation...
...nation's top architectural firms have joined the movement to preserve and refit. Three years ago, for the first time, the venerable American Institute of Architects gave official recognition to their work by allotting four of its coveted annual Honor Awards to renovation projects, several of them quite modest. This week at its convention in Kansas City, no fewer than six of the 15 A.I.A. awards will go to recycled buildings...