Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costs of most income-maintenance schemes Would be vast-another formidable handicap. The most modest plan would cost about $4 billion more than today's welfare; the most ambitious would cost $30 billion more. Neither calculation, however, reckons the present system's potential cost, which, without any modifications, might continue to expand indefinitely. Eventually, even the most generous supplement plan might seem cheap by comparison. As it is, the U.S. spends less proportionally on social welfare than almost any other industrial country...
Cure: Love. By happenstance, Chuck discovers "a way to be thought better of. The key to his modest pad may unlock an executive suite for him. Commuting senior executives with one night of illicit in-town love on their agendas barter promises of future advancement for the use of his apartment. One night Chuck finds the girl (Jill O'Hara) he worships in the bed he rarely makes. She has taken an overdose of sleeping pills after discovering the perfidy of the company Don Juan. Cure: the love of a good -well, fairly good...
Backing into the newspaper business as a $100 investor in the nearly defunct Marion Star, Harding built it into a modest moneymaker, Russell claims, though apparently it was Harding's wife Florence (the "Duchess") who strong-armed both the newspaper and the man into success. A virago of a woman five years older than her "Wurr'n," she was the one driving masculine principle in her husband's life-the force that thrust him upward out of the comfortable country editor's chair in which Harding liked to slump in a "digestive trance" after lunch...
...were more immediately concerned about arming themselves with the most devastating military weapon: the nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Because U.S. scientists had already begun to master the art of packing enormous power into small nuclear warheads, the Redstone, Jupiter and Atlas missiles designed to carry them were only of modest size. The Russians, who were behind in nuclear technology, had only more primitive and massive warheads to use; they were forced to build enormous rockets to loft them. But the Soviet's military liability eventually became a prime scientific asset. By 1961, when President Kennedy proclaimed a national goal...
...Wenatchee in Washington State, never got off the planning boards. But last week the Permian Basin Railroad Co. of Odessa, Texas, announced that it will begin construction in the spring and hopes to open track from Odessa to Seagraves, Texas, by early 1970. Construction costs will be a modest $9,000,000 because the all-freight Permian Basin will be only 78 miles long...