Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million by 1980 (U.S. oil production, by contrast, is expected to remain at 12 million bbl. per day). So great is the world's thirst for oil-consumption will more than double during this decade-that a decision by Saudi Arabia to allow only modest expansion might affect economic growth in the West...
...point out that mortgage lending has been running at a faster pace than a year ago (though it has begun to come down in the past month or so). In New Jersey, AFL-CIO officials want a rollback of permissible interest to 6%, contending this would enable people of modest incomes to afford housing. Oliver Jones, executive vice president of the Mortgage Bankers Association, calls such attitudes "medieval...
...considers the Jerusalem dig one of the largest and most exciting archaeological active work sites in the world. "Here the Old and New Testaments come alive for the students," he says. Out of respect for orthodox Arab customs and feelings, the students kept their hair short and their clothes modest, and they bedded down in separate male and female quarters at the Shepherd Hotel in Jerusalem...
Hughes himself does get round to suggesting some modest reforms. Among them: restoring the State Department's declining power to shape foreign policy, and ensuring that men drafted under Selective Service be used only with the express approval of Congress. His real concern, however, is how men and moments in history have shaped presidential power. The book is not intended to replace classic studies like Clinton Rossiter's The American Presidency (1960) or match George Reedy's scary vision of Lyndon Johnson as a latter-day George III, The Twilight of the Presidency (1970). Instead, briefly, gracefully...
...lobby for a treaty, and left saying "He'd be damned if he ever went there again"). They also feel bedeviled by Chief Justices - beginning with what Thomas Jefferson called the "twistifications" of John Marshall. Unappreciated by the people. Lonely. Unable to trust anybody. James Polk, a modest man who is regarded as a great President (he reduced the tariff and handled the annexation of California in 1848), spoke for all Presidents, and the source of Polk's pique was simple. "I am," he wrote in his diaries, "the hardest-working man in the country...