Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could Carter take pleasure in all of his own party's winners. California Governor Jerry Brown, who defeated Carter in three primaries in 1976, was re-elected by a whopping 1.3 million votes, though the turnout was modest. The landslide gave him a strong boost toward a 1980 presidential...
Some of the most prominent over-promisers went down to resounding defeat. In the New Jersey Senate race, Jeff Bell, perhaps the most avid proponent of Kemp-Roth, was beaten by former Basketball Star Bill Bradley, who proposed more modest tax cuts. Perry Duryea, the G.O.P. candidate for Governor of New York, promised to increase welfare grants and reduce taxes at the same time. The victorious incumbent, Hugh Carey, refrained from any such foolishness. In Arkansas, Bill Clinton, 32, was elected the nation's youngest Governor, even though he vowed to ask for a tax increase if a referendum reducing...
Indeed, the antitax spirit often seemed strong even where measures were technically defeated. Michigan voters refused to okay a 50% rollback in property levies, but approved a modest limit on state spending. Tax relief failed in Oregon, but only because voters split their support almost equally between two anti-tax amendments; as a result, neither polled the simple majority required for passage. Only in Nebraska, Colorado and Maryland were antitax and spending proposals clearly rejected...
...want modern hotels, "but they don't want them to have what they consider to be unnecessary facilities." Most of these, however, are what Westerners would consider minimum requirements for civilized travel. So the company compromised: it gave up on nightclubs, but insisted on providing bars, small swimming pools, modest health clubs and perhaps a couple of tennis courts...
What began on November 13, 1875 in New Hav Harvard scored four goals and four touchdowns while holding Yale scoreless, has evolved from modest origins into a living legend. When Herbert Leeds scored the first points ever in Harvard-Yale football game by falling on a loose ball that had eluded the Yale football game by falling on a loose ball that had eluded the Yale goaltenders in the 1875 game, there were few people there who would have predicted the rivalry would develop into such a grand spectacle...