Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard, Quine in an interview termed UCRA "a plug for academic freedom" and said that he gave a "$10 or $20" contribution. Pinsky checked the UCRA contribution list and remarked that Quine was "being modest...
...order, Americans tend to look at crime in only one dimension, focusing on the chase and the capture. They tend to ignore the courts, the prisons and the conditions that cause crime. The Federal Government can probably do less about crime than it is often assumed. But with relatively modest expenditures?or no expenditures at all?the Government can help merely by re-examining the problems. Almost all authorities on crime agree, for example, that many social infractions now classed as crimes?drunkenness, drug addiction and homosexual relations between consenting adults?are not matters for the police or the criminal...
...were measures to double King County's debt limit and to enable the county to borrow on behalf of its 30 cities. They permitted the county to finance its capital improvements with long-term bonds, which the area's 1,000,000 residents would pay off through modest increases in real estate taxes. All minorities. Something else came of all the careful preparation. The people of King County discovered a new sense of commitment. "From the beginning," says Ellis, "Forward Thrust rejected the idea of compulsion, as implied in a plan imposed from above. Communities can never...
...Jules Moreau, professor of church history at Seabury-Western (Episcopal) Seminary in Evanston, Ill., suggests that the moral issues of imperialism and religious elitism, which were raised by Europeans when they began colonizing the rest of the world, also confront modern man as he prepares to colonize space. A modest but perplexing dilemma would result from the discovery of intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe. The question then would be: Should Christians attempt to convert their celestial neighbors? Extraterrestrial evangelism might not be necessary, suggests Dr. Per Massing of the Boston University School of Theology. "If God has revealed himself...
...running this complex, Marcinkus earns something less than $6,000 a year, just about a teller's salary in a New York City bank. He lives in a modest three-room apartment in a residential home for American priests within walking distance of his office in Vatican City. There are, of course, other compensations. Marcinkus does not have to publish any balance sheet, and neither does he have to face the hazards of an annual stockholders' meeting. He is ultimately answerable only to Pope Paul-who, at least until recently, has been answerable only...