Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were other considerations. The climate of the site had to be reasonably benevolent, and the annual snowfall modest. The soil had to be firm (which automatically excluded the four-fifths of Alaska that is shifting, meltable permafrost), and it had to be less prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions than are many other parts of the seismically active state. Finally, as a symbol of the rugged grandeur of America's last frontier, the site had to be scenically impressive without intruding on salmon-spawning streams, bear dens or other wildlife sanctuaries...
...centers, however, also grew out of the Jesus Movement: Chuck Smith's Calvary Church downstate in Costa Mesa, Calif. A liberal writer in Christian Century snaps that the church "churns out ignorance and hysteria," but in the pulpit Smith is actually a balding Everyman, leading hymns with only modest gestures and offering unvarnished Bible lectures accompanied by a disarmingly broad smile. "People come here because God is explained to them in a way they can understand," says Smith. They can also understand Christianity in action. Calvary sponsors homes for separated wives and for children having trouble with parents, counseling...
...managers of the pension funds, who invest more than $100 billion, have a special reason for worry: Congress in 1974 passed a law permitting receivers of pensions to sue managers of the funds for poor investment performance. Fearful fund managers have adopted a supercautious strategy, setting themselves the modest goal of only matching the performance of the popular stock averages, and pulling out of an issue any time they can turn a small profit...
...modest Warsaw apartment three intellectuals lean intently over a small worktable. One man places a sheet of blank paper over an ink-impregnated flannel cloth that is taped over a typed stencil. Another man quickly rolls an old-fashioned washing-machine wringer down the page from top to bottom. A woman deftly lifts the sheet with a pair of tweezers and lays it on top of a pile on the floor. The printed pages, produced at the rate of 700 an hour, would later be laboriously collated, bound by hand, and delivered to readers of Opinia, an underground monthly published...
...unrest and making martyrs of the underground writers. Polish officials dismiss the dissident writing as insignificant, but they regard its proliferation with dismay. Earlier this month, police confiscated 450 copies of Opinia in the Warsaw apartment of one of the journal's distributors. But that put only a modest dent in the magazine's circulation. About 5,000 copies of every issue are printed, and each copy is believed to have 20 to 30 attentive readers...