Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that time Mintoff was trying to renegotiate a seven-year contract covering support payments for the modest British air and naval force that has remained on Malta since the island was granted sovereignty in 1964. Whitehall was paying $12 million a year; Mintoff demanded $72 million and delivered so many eviction ultimatums that he earned the nickname "Deadline Dom." Britain refused to give in to Mintoff's demands. Instead, Whitehall flew special demolition teams into Malta to dismantle the British bases, and it bundled up wives and children and deserted a post where Englishmen have served since Napoleonic days...
...league success. But over the years, an archaic ballpark, a deteriorating neighborhood, and a roster of mediocre players have considerably dulled the sparkle of the New York Yankees. Last week the team's owners, the Columbia Broadcasting System, cut their losses by selling the Bronx Bombers for the modest sum of $10 million cash to a syndicate headed by Yankee President and CBS Executive Michael Burke...
Salaries are modest ($216 a week for reporters with seven years or more experience), but staffers enjoy considerable freedom. Some who had planned to use the Eagle as a steppingstone decided to remain. Recalls Weil: "I walked in and got a summer job eleven years ago and I'm still here...
...antimeter maid? It all goes back to 1968 when the town fathers installed 340 parking meters in the ten-block downtown section to augment the city's modest revenues. The meters did not produce much until five months ago when Whitehorse hired an energetic local girl, Valerie Matechuk, 26, to police the meters and hand out $2 tickets to overtime parkers. Hot-footing it around her circuit at least twice an hour, Valerie has so far issued thousands of dollars' worth of citations. In the process, downtown store owners complain, she has driven a lot of business away...
...Administration officials believe that the year could well be one of relative labor peace and noninflationary settlements. Surprisingly, 1972 was the most strike-free year since the mid-1960s; some of the reasons for this will continue to work for union moderation this year. Diminishing price increases made relatively modest pay raises yield greater increases in purchasing power than the outsize boosts of 1969-71. More and more expiring contracts contain escalators that automatically raise pay as prices go up. Result: union leaders no longer feel that they have to demand extravagant increases so that their members will stay ahead...