Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's very modest exercise...
...first-round landslide. Of the 46.5% total, Chirac's Gaullists won 22.6%, giving the rightists a tiny edge of 1,320 votes over the Socialists as France's leading party. At the same time, Giscard, Chirac's rival in the center-right coalition, scored a modest success as a result of the surprisingly strong 21.5% showing of the Union pour la Démocratie Française a group of three small non-Gaullist parties that the President stitched together last month. The group pulled in more than 6 million votes-1 million over target...
...about the same time, a joint Texas-Arkansas agency won a $77,000 grant from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to monitor the area's Dixie Mafia through an Organized Crime Intelligence Unit. Cooksey is one of the unit's directors. OCI's achievements have been modest, to say the least. Last year's major accomplishment, for example, was the confiscation of 225 lbs. of marijuana...
...were negotiating the price of some photos she wanted to buy, she pointed out that several years ago she had choreographed a long piece, "A Paper Event," and the paper had cost her $2000 for three night. I was moved by her noble ideals to reduce my modest demands to a new low. Mallardi, who studied with Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham, is a highly demanding person who can identify what she wants from her associates, and seems...
...15th round. What a 15th round!" Louis watched the set-to while recovering from a fight of his own. In October he underwent thoracic surgery to repair a ballooned aorta, and after five months in a Houston hospital he is now convalescing at his modest Las Vegas home. Louis, who had been an official greeter at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas before his operation, insists he is "impatient to return to work." For now, the Brown Bomber is consigned to a wheelchair and two rounds of physical therapy each...