Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victimized by a post-Watergate zealotry for total exposure of the affairs of public servants, and by the public's seeming insistence that they live up to standards that few other men meet. Though a breach of House ethics, the President's use of campaign funds seemed a rather modest offense. As for the maritime unions investigation, no accusers had been publicly identified, no formal charges had been leveled...
...some degree of control over what happens, to Washington." The economy will improve, he says, when federal spending and taxes are brought under sufficient control to encourage private investment. Meanwhile, he favors a number of innovative ideas-like factoring inflation into the income tax code-to protect families of modest means. Says Buckley. "I'm the person looking out for the interests of the taxpayer and the wage earner. If people want a change, they should vote...
Going into the campaign's final weeks, it appeared that New Yorkers did not quite see the choice in Buckley's terms. Moynihan seemed to be holding on to a modest lead that would allow him to add a new entry to his lengthy...
...raised in Roxbury off Blue Hill Avenue, in a community where Jews were easily block-busted and the Irish were slowly driven out by the immigration of Southern blacks, Puerto Ricans and other non-white minority groups. To the Irish and other white ethnics with blue-collar jobs and modest neighborhood homes, O'Neil is the man who battles the pro-busers, the suburban liberals and the Yankee businessmen. Members of the gun clubs, American Legion posts and bowling alleys think Dapper is Boston's only honest politician, the one who talks their language. He is a veteran...
...turn, are making shots available through a variety of channels: hospitals, schools, factories, libraries, churches, even special clinics set up at shopping centers. Under the $135 million program, the vaccine will be free. Private doctors will be allowed to charge an administering fee, but it probably will be modest. The Medical Association of Georgia, for example, has suggested physicians charge $1.50, the same amount it costs the state to give the shots...