Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ships that Holloway feels will be needed at the end of the century is a question that will be heatedly debated by Congress in the weeks ahead. To reach the Navy's goal would require spending about $5 billion extra annually. Even bringing the fleet up to the more modest level of 500 ships, which the Administration believes should be sufficient, would cost about $500 million a year more than Carter has requested...
...various missions. The Navy's $41 billion slice of next year's proposed $126 billion defense budget is the largest allotted any individual military service and is an increase over this year's $39.5 billion. The admirals, however, are not satisfied. They correctly complain that inflation will turn this modest increase into an actual reduction. But what distresses them most is that shipbuilding funds, which they consider the backbone of the service, have been dramatically slashed, from $5.8 billion this fiscal year to $4.7 billion next. This will permit the construction of only 15 new vessels instead...
...friends and supporters, Michigan Legislator Monte R. Geralds, 43, was a man who seemed well launched into a promising if modest political career. A decade ago, he was named Outstanding Young Man by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in his home town of Madison Heights, a Detroit suburb. Two years later he was elected mayor. The father of five and a practicing attorney, Geralds attracted attention by sponsoring a town ordinance that made parents liable to jail sentences or fines if their negligence contributed to criminal acts by their children. In 1974 Democrat Geralds parlayed his reputation for rectitude into...
...attend the funeral for her husband's police escort, to attend Mass on Easter Sunday, and to visit the Vatican offices of Caritas, the Catholic relief agency that volunteered to act as an intermediary. The rest of the time she has remained in seclusion in the modest yellow brick apartment building in northern Rome where the family has lived for 13 years...
...manual specifies, for example, that an apartment or house to be rented or bought must be "'modest, clean, neat and completely furnished. It must appear from the outside as a decent house−curtains, an entrance light, a doormat and a nameplate." It should be situated on a street where it is "easy for a militant to keep watch over and to observe any police surveillance: that is, if possible, it should not be near bars, public buildings, shops, institutes, warehouses, etc." Purchases of food and other necessities should be made far away from the neighborhood of the hideout...