Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...credit for some rational accomplishments. Determined to level extremes of wealth by heavy taxation ("Just as it is done in the U.S.," says Gursel), it has pushed a law through Parliament requiring an honest declaration of assets-previously unimaginable in Turkey. The measure has increased tax receipts by a modest $60 million a year...
Older & Wiser. These modest attractions give klaxon-larynxed Eagle no opportunity to launch into the splendor of his oldtime spiel: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, I invite your undivided attention to the most amazing attraction ever presented for the edification of the citizens of your fair city (come closer, please, so that I may describe this educational exhibit to you in the confidential tones most appropriate for information of this nature). I refer, ladies and gentlemen, to the biological, yes, the anatomical wonder of the age: Jo Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy from deep in the heart of the jungles...
...body has not yet been found). He logged 1,800 miles-much of it driving the 500-mile round trip to Salt Lake City with photographs. "Stamina," as Mullins himself put it, was about all the story required, and that Mullins had. At length, his stamina delivered a modest payoff. The reporter was with a search party in the desert when the murder gun was found one morning. Mullins begged the use of a mining company's two-way radio and flashed word of the discovery in time for the Deseret News's final edition...
...also the team captain, a power hitter and the most dependable ballplayer on the club. "Kenny's our big man," says Manager Johnny Keane. "And he'd be the big man on any club in baseball." Boyer's own quiet appraisal is considerably more modest: "As long as I help the club win, I don't care about statistics." The figures speak for themselves. A seven-year veteran, he has failed to hit .300 only twice. His record this year: a .333 batting average, 22 runs driven in. He has led National League third basemen...
Whatever the explanation, almost no one found any great comfort in the fact that the Dow-Jones averages ended the week higher than they had started it. To Wall Street professionals, the modest recovery was flawed by the fact that higher prices were accompanied by a decline in trading volume to 3,010,000 shares a day. Warned Edmund Tabell of Walston & Co.: "The market is not going to go up right away. It might go lower again...