Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which is still hurting from the two-month loss of Iranian crude earlier this year, almost any new interruption in supply, no matter how modest or brief, will lead to tighter markets and higher prices. In their present jittery state, Americans are ready to start topping off gas tanks for almost any reason. Not only does the memory of a summer spent in gas lines remain fresh and infuriating, but so does the specter of the 1973 Arab embargo, which ushered in the age of energy upset...
...sands. In July Carter suggested spending $88 billion over the next decade to build some 40 synthetic fuel plants. But three Senate consultants concluded that such a program would be too much, too fast, and waste billions of dollars. As a result, the Senate this month passed a more modest $20 billion bill that will offer loans and price guarantees over the next five years to private companies to open perhaps a dozen commercial synthetic fuel plants. The House passed a smaller synfuels program in early summer but is expected to accept the Senate's larger bill with minor...
...modest man who does not smoke or drink, Arap Moi was the flamboyant Kenyatta's somewhat faceless Vice President for eleven years before Jomo's death. Then, the conventional wisdom was that Kenya would be torn apart in a bloody tribal struggle for power, because no one in sight had anything like the following of the Mzee (Swahili for old man). But with the backing of the two most powerful Cabinet ministers belonging to the dominant Kikuyu tribe, Arap Moi was selected as the new President by the country's ruling party, the Kenya African National Union...
Money to buy condos or co-ops is becoming costlier and harder to find, of course, but the impact of the squeeze has so far been modest. In Chicago, the Baird & Warner real estate firm reckons that October condo sales were 6% ahead of the same month last year, but prices have eased from an average of $93,000 in 1978 to about $85,000 today. In New York City, both demand and prices remain high, and luxury four-room apartments are selling for an average of $ 160,000, vs. $ 100,000 a year...
...campaign fund in assigned amounts up to $3,000. The checks were made out to cash. Ranking executives made every effort to have their meal checks and other expenses picked up by obsequious subordinates so that if shareholders' inquired at the annual meeting, the brass could boast of modest expense accounts. Spying on a competitor was not unknown...