Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right-wing coalition, the Popular Alliance, threatened that its more than 100 members would abstain from voting unless majority representation replaces the government's proposal that seats in the lower house be allotted by proportional representation. In the end, Alliance leaders and other conservatives were satisfied by a modest technical compromise on voting procedures...
...Street version of Alec Guinness in a Midwest remake of The Captain's Paradise, the taciturn bureaucrat for years had secretly been supporting two separate families in two South Dakota towns some 200 miles apart: Pierre (pop. 10,300), where he maintained both a branch office and a modest house in a neat, middle-class neighborhood, and Sioux Falls (pop. 79,800), where he had his main office and a flat in an apartment complex known as the Tally...
Despite the modest disclaimers of certain of the principals involved, the publicity and disputation generated by the Currier House seminar has not been overblown to the point of absurdity. In point of fact, it may be concluded that the entire concatenation of events is far more indicative of the "unspoken" than many of our very intelligent, illustrious colleagues, male and female, would care to allow. A number of very important issues have been raised by this "peculiar and very petty squabble"--issues which in no way have been resolved, and which, paradoxically enough, have yet to be recognized and articulated...
When he is at the project, he stays in an ordinary room at a modest guest house in Monte Dourado and stomps about wearing 25-year-old gray trousers and an even more ancient pair of black dress shoes. He visits congenially with his employees and their families, talking about the future with the energy of a man half his age. Says Volker Eisenlohr, the German-born manager of the kaolin project: "When I first met him 13 years ago, he said, 'Go fast, I only have four years left.' Now he is still saying the same thing." His people...
...bank at the time. He remembers telling his wife Sasha: "If you don't mind going out in the backyard and eating grass, I'd rather burn this script than sell it to another actor. She agreed." United Artists put up a modest $1 million for Rocky, and Director John Avildsen (Save the Tiger) shot the film in a brisk 28 days...