Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trend probably is toward modest reform and refinements, and even more than 31 primaries in 1980. About the only thing that could change that prospect would be if the hero of the 1976 primaries, the triumphant Jimmy Carter, were to lose in a landslide to a candidate emerging from a brokered Republican Convention. Meanwhile, Jimmy, showing more wit than he is sometimes credited with, says of the primary system: "I think it's an absolutely superb process...
...BEST NEWS about affirmative action this 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 alleged discriminatory practices and setting the University on a path of better faith and more liberal hiring projections...
...prices went up much less in May than in April; industrial commodity prices rose hardly at all. A better guide to the rate at which inflation is subsiding is a comparison over a longer period: during the past twelve months the wholesale price index has risen only a rather modest...
Still, most economists forecast that inflation by year's end will be running at about 5% to 6%. Such a rate would be modest by the standards of recent years arid would not greatly dampen consumer optimism, especially if the current expansion in personal income continues to put more money in buyers' pockets. Already the rise in consumer installment credit for the first three months of the year ($3.9 billion) tops the increase for all of 1975 ($3.7 billion...
Grizzly is too cheapjack to be a considerable success, but it also will not need much of a return at the box office to show a modest profit. It is notable mainly as the first in what promises to be an infestation of Jaws sequels, rip-offs and derivations. Universal is presently at work on the official reprise, Jaws II. Other studios will soon bring forth films about marauding crocodiles, deadly swarms of bees, a car - apparently driverless- that terrorizes a small town, and a plague of earthworms, this last called Squirm. Most of these items hold little promise...