Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Irish Catholic from a modest Connecticut family, Williams was a courtroom spellbinder with a photographic memory and an endless bag of trial-winning tricks. The powerful took notice. In time Williams' client roster would feature fewer names like "Nutsy" Schwartz and more like former Treasury Secretary John Connally. With his controlling interest in the Washington Redskins, Williams made the owner's box a showplace for Washington's elite. By 1974 he had become treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, a job that didn't keep him from voting for Gerald Ford, who had once offered...
...industrial average plunged 120 points on Friday, to 2,943.20, for its fifth largest drop ever and the steepest decline since it fell 190.58 on Oct. 13, 1989. Analysts said the free fall reflected fears that the U.S. was sliding back into recession after the economy eked out a modest 2.4% gain in the third quarter. "The equity markets are finally realizing what sad shape the U.S. economy is in," says Allen Sinai, chief economist of Boston Company Economic Advisers...
...Harvard Alumni Office will keep a master list of student and alumni information: age, height, weight, gender, sexual orientation, estimated (or in the case of current students, potential) income. People from all over the country, all over the world will call the office. For a modest fee, they will receive the number of a promising candidate. Harvard affiliates who are married or morally opposed to matchmaking services could, also for a small fee, remove their names from the list...
...what we eat. The last decade has witnessed an explosion of restaurants filled with brass and glass, Murphy's Oil Soaped wood, Tiffany lamps and ferns, lots of ferns. Part bar, part restaurant, part amusement park, these mini-herbaria all bring us the same mediocre food at the same modest prices, the same all over the country...
Although it no longer rules the heavens (Chicago's Sears Tower, at 1,454 ft., and New York City's own World Trade Center, 1,368 ft., soar higher than the Empire State Building's now modest 1,250 ft.), the grande dame of skyscrapers is apparently still fetching enough to win a new suitor. According to the Wall Street Journal, the landmark's current owner, Prudential Insurance Co., is selling the legendary edifice for a comparatively paltry $40 million. The reported buyer: a member of the Grace family, which founded W.R. Grace...