Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever one thinks of Rocky, it has not had a salutary effect on the movie business. The film made America safe for modest, old-fashioned tearjerkers, and Hollywood opened the floodgates. Voices is the latest in a chain of look-alike films. Even in this shoddy barrel of bathos, Voices is near the bottom...
...just pay a low monthly charge and use as much as they wished. That naive optimism has long since vanished in the wake of zooming construction costs, endless delays in getting plants built and growing public opposition. In 22 years of commercial operation, nuclear power has won only a modest role in the nation's total energy picture. Now, in the shock of the Three Mile Island nightmare, the question arises whether reactors will ever be able-or be allowed-to contribute much more than the 14% of electricity production and almost 4% of total energy consumption that they...
...Midshipmen, by contrast, make the most of their modest natural ability; they're consistently one of the best-conditioned, best-coached and--above all--most sportsmanlike squads in East Coast tennis. And the addition of freshman Dave Andrews, the top-ranked junior player in Hawaii, could be the spark needed to hoist Navy up from a mediocre sixth place (3-6) finish in the Easterns last spring...
White House aides insist that Carter has not yet made up his mind. He could take the dramatic step of immediate decontrol, or he could choose the more modest, but politically safer option of gradually lifting controls on specified types of U.S. oil over two years. Carter is likely to ask Congress to include an excess profits tax that would prevent the oil companies from reaping a sudden bonanza. But whether he will urge that this tax be rebated to low-income families, be set aside for oil exploration or used to reduce his budget deficit apparently was undecided last...
...last week the protesters were off the streets. For one thing, Khomeini had backed down, saying that he had merely been suggesting modest dress. Also, the women were reluctant to endanger the already hard-pressed government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, who has been receptive to their complaints...