Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resident of the town. The Catholic priest was white, a Maryknoll missionary who had lived in the village for almost 10 years. From a small speaker on the wall an organ version of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" was playing. As the padre walked to the modest altar, his assistant passed out to the peasants sheets with prayers written in Quechua. This service was for those who spoke only that Indian tongue; in the previous hour the padre had said mass for the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the village. Almost none of the campesinos spoke Spanish...
Within six hours of Murphy's return, FBI agents swooped in on a modest suburban home in Lilburn, Ga., 15 miles from Atlanta, and arrested William A.H. Williams, 33, and his wife Betty Ruth, 26, on kidnap charges. Williams, who described himself as a building contractor, had previously been convicted on forgery and stolen-car charges. Last week his bail was set at $1 million and his wife's at $500,000. Inside the Williams home, police found stacks of bills - all or almost all of the $700,000. Murphy positively identified Williams as the man who came...
Moral government was part of The Way, but dissent in its absence clearly was not--The Master said, "He who holds no rank in a State does not discuss its policies." To those with modest power, his disciple Tzu-yu added, "In the service of one's prince, repeated scolding can lead only to loss of favor." And in Imperial China, favor was with-drawn with a vengeance--China's greatest historian, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, was castrated for defending a general who had fallen into the disfavor of a Han emperor. Ssu's action had been morally correct...
Rochford immediately called for a "complete turnabout" on the force and proposed a list of modest reforms that filled three single-spaced pages. Main items: setting up a new Office of Professional Standards, staffed in part by civilians, to investigate police brutality and corruption; reinstating psychiatric evaluations of applicants to weed out the emotionally unstable; and attracting more blacks and Spanish-speaking people to the force. Rochford also asked the mayor to take away the police's power to issue liquor licenses and give it to some other city agency...
According to figures compiled by the Magazine Publishers Association, the new rate immediately boosts the average cost of mailing each copy of a magazine by six-tenths of a cent. That amount may seem modest, but it is not, when weighed against the harsh fact that the average profit now earned on each copy of a U.S. magazine is only eight-tenths of a cent. And the bulk of the increase is yet to take its toll...