Word: modeste
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...Carrie slips away and ventures back to her roots near the Texas Gulf Coast to discover what the viewer will have long suspected: the town of Bountiful no longer exists. The land there is used up, and the world has moved on. We are left to contemplate a modest triumph of the human spirit...
...economy during 1985 carried U.S. business ahead at the sleepy pace of Ol' Man River. Rolling along at a modest 2.4% rate, it provided most companies with just enough propulsion to make for a comfortable ride. But if the economic mainstream was smooth, the trip for many voyagers was as hair-raising as a Snake River rafting expedition. In 1985 a parade of slumps, scandals, panics and just plain goofs rocked the business world. All the while, an unprecedented wave of acquisitions was swallowing up such well-known corporate names as ABC, RCA, Nabisco, General Foods and Revlon...
...Nils Lundgren, vice president of Stockholm's Pkbanken, believes that West European countries are slowly creating conditions for steady, solid growth. Said Lundgren: "We are more inflation-proof now during the business upswings." Imports are cheaper, wage increases are modest, and governments are reducing budget deficits. At the same time, Lundgren found that Europeans, on the political left as well as the right, have learned to accept the need for free-market solutions, even if it means shutting down loss-making steel mills and shipyards. Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor-of economics at the University of Paris Nord, also noted...
ITALY. Carli forecast continued growth at around 2.5% this year. Despite that rather modest expansion, companies have enjoyed hefty profits because they have increased prices and kept capital investments low. But the Italian public debt, now 101.9% of the gross national product, is expected to grow another...
Paradoxically, the depressed economic conditions in Spain and Portugal could give them an advantage in trade with the rest of the E.C. Reason: wages are comparatively low in both countries, and that helps keep prices modest. Leal pointed out that some Spanish agricultural prices are 17% to 20% less than those of other E.C. countries. Joining the Community should enable Spain to boost its exports of fruits, vegetables and wines. Portugal is likely to increase its shipments of textiles and shoes...