Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After some barbecued beef and refried beans, Reagan took his guests on a tour of the modest five-room Spanish-style house to which he and Nancy escape whenever they can. Reporters passed a poster advertising an old movie (Talk About a Stranger), a U.S. Army recruiting poster, an autographed Al Capp cartoon of Li'l Abner and a tile floor the Reagans laid themselves. Wearing an assortment of cowboy hats and a state policeman's hat, Reagan posed for photos and then asked his visitors to sign a guest book. He said that the ranch provided...
...mournful-looking man with an unctuous public style, Arias himself has had a sometimes troubled relationship with the Bunker. As Franco's last Premier, Arias launched a policy of apertura (opening) that infuriated rightists, even though it involved such modest gestures as allowing free elections in some municipalities and the formation of certain limited political "associations." Nonetheless, he was imposed on the King by the rightists after Franco's death as the only possible compromise choice for Premier...
Although considered somewhat conservative in the past, Suárez fully supported the modest steps toward democracy that Spain has taken in the past six months. In recent weeks, for example, he was the leading government spokesman in the Cortes for the Cabinet-drafted laws legalizing non-Communist political parties, guaranteeing the rights of assembly and public demonstrations and reforming labor relations. Hardline Franquistas charged that Suárez had helped destroy the National Movement he headed by supporting the reforms, but the measures did not go far enough to please either opposition leaders or Juan Carlos, who felt...
...police, firemen's and sanitationmen's unions. But last week even New York's militant unions faced up to reality: 67 of them, representing 161,000 of the city's 247,000 employees, accepted a two-year, "no cost" contract that provides only for modest cost-of-living salary adjustments (at most, $543 a year). More pointedly, the contract allows such raises only if they can be offset by increases in productivity or reductions in fringe benefits. As a result of the agreement, Treasury Secretary William Simon announced that New York would immediately...
...President is determined that the Seychelles will not become "a nation of waiters." Says Mancham: "We have learned our lesson from the overcommercialization and human pollution that have spoiled much of Tahiti and the Caribbean. Here, no hotel will be built higher than a coconut palm." Viewed from such modest heights, the future of the independent Seychellois may indeed be cause for rejoicing...