Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foreigners might consider this a modest enough venture into outside affairs, but it was bitterly debated before the federal Parliament at Bern finally approved the idea. "Why should we gallop into this Europeanization?'' shouted an angry legislator. "It should be done step by step." Citing the cost ($70,000) of joining the Council, Independent Representative Alois Grendelmeier of Zurich huffed, "Diplomatic missions are more than adequate for communicating with other states . . . our neutrality is getting dimmer and dimmer...
...great step in the democratic process," says Owings. "It gave me confidence in what can be expected at a modest county level of political sophistication, without state or federal intervention...
...watch over the Forward do not want to see it die. Each year an association of 100 Jewish leaders gladly meets the paper's modest deficit from private investments, and from the profits of WEVD, the foreign language radio station that the group owns. But this can only delay the end, for the Forward is the inevitable victim of its own success. "The Forward hasn't really changed." says Editor Fogelman. "The big change is that the paper has less of that cry of poverty that existed during the great waves of immigration. Now the immigrant has established...
...dynamic new force on the horizon likely to send the well-fed, well-housed, abundantly equipped U.S. into a new boom. Instead, some fear that the U.S. may have to rely for domestic growth chiefly on its normal population increase?which seems to expand the economy at a disappointingly modest 3% a year. Faced with this prospect, which the economists have dourly christened "high-level stagnation." U.S. businessmen in 1962 increasingly looked abroad to markets where millions for the first time had money to spend for much beyond the bare necessities. ''When the aluminum market went soft at home." says...
...addition, Martin does not use the musical resources he calls for. Most of the time, the large chorus and the small chorus are sitting on the stage doing nothing. In the frequent and long sections of recitative, only small parts of the orchestra are required for the very modest accompaniment...