Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government, Schultze has managed to spend more time with Wife Rita, a part-time librarian at George Washington University, and their six children, aged 11 to 27. Schultze and his family in recent years have become avid backpackers in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a short drive from their modest home in northwest Washington. Said a colleague: "Give Charlie some free time and an open trail. and he's gone." In his new job, however, Schultze will have little time for hikes, except between the Executive Office Building and the White House...
...Democrats' turn to direct the economy, and the key question is what President-elect Jimmy Carter will do−and whether any policy he adopts will have much effect before 1978. As Inauguration Day approaches, the talk in the Carter camp is becoming steadily more modest. His advisers at one time spoke ebulliently of slashing unemployment in 1977 by three or four percentage points. Since the election, Carter has set goals of 6% growth for his first year in office and only a 1½ point cut in the unemployment rate. On his own staff, there are growing doubts...
Time was when a man feeling loaded, fond and possibly guilty at Christmas time would hie himself to Tiffany or Cartier and buy his loved one a little something to make her feel like Cleopatra-an epithalamium of emeralds, say, or a modest suburban tiara. The trend in recent years, however, seems to have been away from the unilateral bauble and toward the his and her extravaganza, particularly of the shared, sensory and sensational sort...
...poured in? Last week some dollar numbers emerged from separate meetings between Carter and his transition staff, and the incoming President and chief executives of 15 giant companies, including Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II and DuPont Chairman Irving Shapiro. The President-elect's advisers were somewhat more modest than the businessmen. In effect, they called for $20 billion in tax cuts and spending increases, while the corporate chiefs-or at least their spokesman, General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones-opted for $23 billion. But the similarities in the plans were striking. For example, both advocated spending of an additional...
Marijuana Smugglers. In October Light, his best novel to date, Gardner has really got his hyphenated act together. As if to contain his ambitions, he has assigned himself at the start a small, local comedy of apparently modest import. An 80-year-old widow, Sally Abbott, has come home to the family farmhouse to live out her days with her widower brother James in the shadow of Prospect Mountain, near Bennington...