Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soglin escaped criticism from his friends on the left. Some, pointing to the modest, $26,000 house he and his wife recently bought and to his $24,000 salary, suspect that he has gone bourgeois. Others feel that he has at least retreated from the radicalism of his student days. "There are council members who are submitting much more progressive legislation than Paul is," says Alderman Susan Kay Phillips, 29, a member of the radical Wisconsin Alliance. Even the university's Daily Cardinal, which endorsed his mayoral bid, has become critical. Soglin, it charged, has provided "mere efficiency...
...been, the raging U.S. inflation would have been much worse if it had not been for the almost saintly patience that workers have shown in accepting modest wage increases. Now the patience seems to be evaporating. A sudden upsurge in pay raises threatens to give the inflationary spiral another whirl...
...times the $1.58 a share that the company actually earned in 1973. The stock has been hypersensitive to such concessions to reality because, as recently as last summer, it sold for a dizzying 90 times earnings. By last week, the price-earnings ratio had come down to a more modest-and realistic...
...Buddhist monastery and now lives at Lake Como, seems never to have heard of Lamarckian biology, T.D. Lysenko's bogus theory that Communism could be inherited as an acquired characteristic, or even about the lowly planarian worms, which were forced to cannibalize their siblings in hope that their modest laboratory lessons would be passed on to future generations...
...heat of a grave political crisis, a modest man became momentarily a heroic one. Now, eight months later, Cox has returned to his book-lined office in the International Legal Studies Building at the Law School, saying little about the scandal even in his now-frequent speeches and waiting modestly for the other shoe, the one his defiance set in motion, to drop on Richard Nixon...