Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others see whole before it is presented to the nation. Lyndon Johnson has made a practice of keeping the puzzle puzzling right up to the last minute: in past years, Administration aides leaked inflated budget totals in advance so that the final budget, even if a record, would look modest by comparison. Last week the White House announced that the budget for fiscal 1967 will probably be somewhere between $110 billion and $115 billion, a breach of the magic $100 billion figure and a much greater rise over this year's announced $99.7 billion than most people had expected...
Quill's original demands on the Transit Authority were so outlandish that few people took them seriously. In a 76-point package, which he blandly labeled "very modest requests," Quill demanded that the Authority increase the T.W.U.'s contract for 1966-67 by nearly 2,000% over the old one-including an increase of more than $2 per hour, a 32-hour week, and six weeks of vacation after one year on the job (present vacation: five weeks after 25 years). The Transit Authority figured that the package would cost $680 million, or one-fifth of the entire...
...Nation's 100th anniversary issue last summer. Yet so uncharacteristically sleek was that 336-page effort that Storrow may be just the man to make dollars out of dissent. He feels confident that he can double circulation to 60,000 within 18 months and show a modest profit-the first since 1944. He plans a big promotion campaign on college campuses, where he believes most potential $10-a-year subscribers are concentrated. He will also brighten up the magazine's layout and typography and improve the quality of its paper...
...downtown Providence, R.I., for instance, the city housing authority constructed the eleven-story Dexter Manor for elderly people with incomes of less than $3,300 a year. The rent is a modest $43 a month for an efficiency unit, and there are now three people wait-listed for every occupancy. A similar building that will be completed in May is already oversubscribed by 470. Says Housing Authority Executive Director Joseph Lyons: "Older people like to see kids fighting in the streets and traffic moving. I was offered a beautiful site three miles from town and near a golf course...
Last March, Parliament authorized the Church of England to use, on an experimental basis, a number of the 1928 revisions, plus a few new ones recommended by a church liturgical commission. The text of these changes was published this month, but will not go into effect until May. Although modest enough, the 1928 changes do excise some of the gloomiest theologizing of the Anglican past. The burial service, for example, omits "man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." In the Te Deum, God, who "didst not abhor...