Word: modeste
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Tantalizing Clues. Kennedy released only his federal tax return, not a full statement of his assets and net worth. Nevertheless, the return provides tantalizing clues to the possible dimensions of his personal fortune. If the income Kennedy received last year from his trusts represents a modest 5% return on investments, the principal would amount to about $8.36 million. On his tax returns, his $94,744 in deductions included a hefty $20,434 in mortgage interest payments and $8,180 in real estate taxes for his home in McLean, Va., $3,171 for his house in Hyannis Port, Mass., plus...
Both candidates ran modest campaigns with limited funds and the help of numerous relatives. Both racked up impressive mileage as they crisscrossed the state with their handsome wives in search of votes, but their styles and tactics differed. Threatening to bite rather than kiss the first baby he saw, Denenberg, 44, plunged into crowds, bluntly demanding votes and firing flamboyant rhetoric in all directions. Samples: "The oil companies have been fixing prices for so long, they don't know it's illegal. Government is the No. 1 consumer fraud. I was on to Nixon...
With two nuclear power plants operating and two more under construction-potentially capable of providing enough plutonium to produce more than a score of modest bombs-India is on the threshold of atomic prowess. That prospect alone filled many Indians with pride this week and helped bolster Mrs. Gandhi's strike-embattled administration (TIME, May 20). Yet many others argued that nuclear bombs will have no effect on the economic ills of a country where incomes continue to plummet and prices rise faster than a mushroom cloud. As a Hindustan Times editorial observed last week: "A nuclear bang, albeit...
...course, it does not always work that way; authorities claim only a "modest success" so far. Of the 58 "clients," as they are called, 18 have either disappeared, committed new crimes or bent the rules sufficiently to be sent back to prison. Supervisor Johnson believes that it was one of them who burgled the Johnson apartment, leaving an anonymous thank-you note. The program will now try to improve results by dropping random selection. Meanwhile, there is special pride in the thief who last month became the center's first graduate. Now completely on his own, he is working...
...only way to go," says an enthusiastic second-year student sitting in the small student lounge in the modest four-story building that houses the law school, located in the Northeastern campus. "The practical experience is invaluable. You really learn all the stuff you're taught in the first year. After working, listening to professors is tough." The range of co-op opportunities is broad: "Some like to work in legal-aid type of projects. Other, like me, who come from a poor background, want to see what a big firm is like." A first-year student planning to work...