Word: modest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stucco house, a Panamanian gunboat can be seen cruising the richly blue-green waters. Guards armed with pistols and submachine guns patrol the driveway, and a German shepherd attack dog trots around the unfenced grounds. Perched on a cliff 50 yds. from the bay, the house itself is a modest dwelling, consisting of only six rooms. But for the latest occupant of the building, owned by former Panamanian Ambassador to the U.S. Gabriel Lewis Galindo, it is a much needed haven. "Such surroundings, such hospitality, are not going to be easy to match," said Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi last week...
Once a strident hardliner, Iraq tried to be a middleman in the power struggle between extremists and self-professed moderates. Its oil minister, Tayeh Abdul-Karim, suggested that a relatively modest floor price be established, but that it increase automatically every three months in line with world inflation and the economic growth of Western nations, a proposal that won only limited support...
...boost the use of coal and the production of syntheic fuels, including shale oil. The U.S. could be producing as much as 6 million bbl. of "synfuels" a day by 1990, equal to about 75% of all current imports. Jimmy Carter wants the financing for his own more modest synfuels program to come from his proposed windfall profits tax; it would be levied on the increased revenues that U.S. oil companies have been earning since price controls on oil began to be phased out last June. But Congress must now wrestle with a Senate bill passed last week that would...
...dominating Western Europe. In 1977, both Britain and West Germany called Washington's attention to the fact that the alliance, if it should suddenly become the target of a Soviet attack in Europe, could easily find itself in a nuclear dilemma: its response might be either too modest (perhaps with the use of battlefield nuclear artillery) or too devastating (an intercontinental ballistic missile strike at the Soviet Union from the U.S.). Furthermore, the Europeans are also fearful that in such an emergency, the U.S. might not respond at all. What was needed, they felt, was a nuclear capability that...
...bits, such as the doubleentendre courtship of a secretary (Nancy Allen) and a young soldier (Tim Matheson), are suffocated by John Williams' excessive musical score. Only Belushi upstages the chaos around him, and even his repertoire of eating and belching jokes seems strained when separated from the scruffy, modest context of Animal House...