Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Uneasy over the country's growing reputation as an Alpine penny pincher, the government recently won parliamentary support for a modest $80 million contribution to the World Bank to help the world's neediest nations. But an odd coalition of extreme left-and right-wing politicians launched a popular initiative against the proposal.When it came to a referendum last week, the Swiss resoundingly rejected the aid scheme, 713,855 to 550,557. The Tribune de Genève fretted that the outcome betrayed an "egoistic, isolationist trait in the Swiss character," but that hardly came as a surprise...
...section of Hum 55 than he did at either Tufts or the University of Massachusetts. And Barba-Martin feels he must work harder, especially on the "style of the prepared lecture," before he is ready to teach. Like his thesis, Barba-Martin predicts that his teaching will be a "modest but necessary contribution...
...BEST NEWS about affirmative action this past year was not that Harvard has met or is close to meeting its far too modest hiring goals for minorities and women, but that a group of students decided to band together to show the uglier side of the University's program. In forming the Task Force for Affirmative Action, twelve student groups took upon themselves a job they felt Harvard and the Boston Office of Civil Rights were performing inadequately--ending Harvard's discriminatory practices and setting the University on a path of better faith and more liberal hiring projections...
...away from income and value-added taxes to the kind of capital gains levy on the sale of stocks and property that is common to virtually every advanced industrial country. Affecting only some 300,000 people and bringing in a mere 3.3% of all taxes, the measure is certainly modest. Nonetheless, it has stirred up a chorus of protest from Lille to Nice...
Most of the patients who entered the modest house in north-central Los Angeles were poor Mexican aliens, and most were pregnant women. They were drawn to the makeshift clinic, called the Highland Medical Center, by the low child-delivery fees charged by Osteopath Joseph Emory, 55. Since 1974, in fact, Emory has delivered more than 700 babies, usually charging between $200 and $300 per case. Despite the low fees, the clinic's services were apparently no bargain. Last week Emory was arrested and charged with the murder of ten of the more than 25 infants who, during...