Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story. "When I bought a share in a horse," he recalls, "I thought I would have the inside dope. The dope turned out to be the horse-or me." Still, when Bolwell received a long-distance tip on a horse last week, he could not resist wagering a modest sum. The horse finished dead last...
...economic goals for next year announced on the Hill by the President-elect did look conservative enough at first glance. He said he hoped to reduce by 1.5% the current unemployment rate of 7.9%, and to increase the gross national product by 6%. Those goals are not as modest as they may appear, however, and some of Carter's economic advisers are telling him that if he hopes to reach his targets, he will have to give the economy a quick stimulant when he takes office. One sure, swift way to do that, of course, is to cut taxes...
Jimmy Carter is, of course, committed to revving up the U.S. economy. But West German leaders, worried, as always, about inflation, are wary of stimulative policies, and Japan has taken only a modest turn toward expansion...
Aggravating Strain. The upshot: Chase Econometrics, a private research firm, forecasts that economic expansion in 12 major nations will slow, on average, from 5.5% this year to 4.5% in 1977. In Europe, it predicts, growth will slip from an already modest 4.2% in 1976 to 3.9% next year. While such a slowdown would still be a long way from outright recession, it would aggravate already serious commercial and political strains throughout the non-Communist world...
...idea that a painting's surface was an impartial collector of images. Anything could be dropped on the blueprints and leave its mark. Soon afterward, Rauschenberg made grass paintings?bundles of soil and plant matter held together with chicken wire, from which seedlings sprouted. (The last of these modest forerunners of earth art perished of cold and thirst in his loft down by the Fulton Street docks in 1954.) The results of this clownish exercise, as it looked then, would be of capital importance to modern...