Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...improvement. Yet the positive gets its share of print - more than is generally realized. This week's TIME is not exactly brimming over with cheer: there is war, murder or attempted murder in several varieties, skulduggery and disease. But like most issues, it also contains a variety of modest good tidings...
When Admiral Elmo Zumwalt announced two weeks ago that the largest barnacle yet was going to fall from his Navy, modest cheers greeted the news. But the cheers may have been premature. Anticipating the eventual adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, the Chief of Naval Operations decreed that women personnel will follow beards as an innovation aboard U.S. ships. Since federal law now forbids the presence of women aboard all but hospital ships and transports, Zumwalt chose as his pilot project the hospital ship Sanctuary, currently in drydock; 26 Navy women are slated to join the ship...
...more or less clothed, one beach in particular belongs to all of Europe, and all of Europe seems to descend upon it in August. That is the 25 miles of broad sandy coast on either side of Rimini, part of Italy's Adriatic Riviera. The cost can be modest-$10 a day buys a room and meals-for those willing to holiday amid beach umbrellas ten to 30 rows deep. Some Italians who are compelled to take their vacations in the August crush have characterized them as holidays at hard labor. After the vacationer has fought the battle...
...seven years for an apartment; "resettlers," as the emigrants-come-home are called, can buy a modern flat immediately for about $2,500. Most important, U.S. Social Security payments are exchanged for zlotys at almost twice the official rate. Because of Poland's low cost of living, a modest American pension gives a resettler an income equivalent to that of a Polish doctor or university professor...
While wages are relatively modest, the well-known Japanese fringe benefits help to inspire both hard work and loyalty. For 20?, a worker can eat a company-subsidized lunch, and for $13.35 a month he can live in a company-subsidized, three-room apartment. He can take a free vacation at one of the company-owned lodges, or Nippon Kokan will pay the first $3.30 of his daily hotel bill. Medical care for workers and their families is almost totally company financed; an appendectomy costs about $2. Workers can use the company gym and playing field and can shop...