Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indicted for an offense punishable by more than two years in prison. Meanwhile, Flood continues his campaign for re-election back home where his popularity does not seem to ebb. After the indictments were announced, the Congressman-a former Shakespearean actor -seemed uncharacteristically subdued when he stepped outside his modest house to make a statement. Claimed Flood: "These are charges made by desperate men under pressure...
...last summer, excessive bureaucracy, credit difficulties, erratic cash flow, transport and communications bottlenecks were prevalent. Once again, the expectations of the poor and middle class were frustrated. Rent for a modest two-room apartment in Tehran rose to $1,000 a month. For luxury villas in the northern part of the city, a monthly rent of $5,000 was not considered extravagant. There was a year's wait for a $6,000 Iranian-manufactured automobile; imported Mercedes 280s sold...
...order of the evening. Piety aside, the broader and deeper emotions are not often invoked. The performance unavoidably remains a bit rarefied, which is no doubt why it is booked for a three-week run in the small (249 seats) theater of Manhattan Marymount College. After a similarly modest beginning in London, however, it escalated into one of last spring's solid West End hits. McCowen is scheduled for a three-month tour of the U.S., including another visit to New York and culminating in a return to London for a one-night stand at Westminster Abbey...
...Philadelphia, had bought a car for a friend. Somebody else heard that she had paid for several trips to Puerto Rico for other friends. None of this was true, police said later, but people in the neighborhood began estimating how much money she might have stashed away in her modest row house. Someone guessed $35,000. Someone guessed more. There was even talk of a hoard of $45 million. None of this was true either-her only income is her monthly $247 Social Security check, and her only saving consists of a prepaid burial-but when the rumors started spreading...
There will be relatively modest economic growth-3.4% -next year, and probably a brief and shallow recession in 1980, hitting bottom that autumn. Though that is not a joyous prospect for Jimmy Carter, Greenspan is not prematurely celebrating any victories for his fellow Republicans. He figures that Democrats, moving with the tide of the people, have shifted fast to the right and co-opted the G.O.P.'s position. But the fellow who is sworn in as President on Jan. 20, 1981-Jimmy or Jerry or Teddy or somebody-will inherit an economy that, Greenspan feels, will rise with...