Word: modeste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fees do not appear exorbitant. In all, 1,050 operations were performed, with 50 or more surgeons taking part. Complicated open-heart techniques, including the implantation of artificial heart valves and pacemakers, were involved. Even so, the average cost to Medicare for each operation was roughly $380-a modest figure. All the money, said DeBakey, went to Baylor College of Medicine, which pays the surgeons' salaries...
Perhaps the biggest surprise was Silvio Varviso, the Swiss conductor, who has had only modest success during his Metropolitan Opera performances. Jolted into inspiration by Everding's forceful approach, he evoked from Wagner's score its powerful suggestions of the Ring to come...
...analysts handle more than 11,000 personal and institutional investment accounts, each of which usually must have a minimum of $200,000. Portfolio managers service the proverbially helpless richman's widow as well as the young business-school graduate who uses his M.B.A. training to turn the modest old family firm into a gold mine. Real estate experts on the bank's 1,200-man staff will advise on matters like buying a villa on the Mediterranean. The bank also lends money for many investments. Altogether, the company charges the usual brokerage commission plus advisory fees, which...
...Discoveries. By Maziere's not at all modest reckoning, his investigation generated two major discoveries. One was archaeology's first clue to the sacramental significance of the figures. After a careful survey of the slopes of Rano-Raraku volcano, where 193 modi are still standing (83 have fallen), Maziere was intrigued by the fact that each giant faces in a slightly different direction. Then an old islander informed him that "each modi looks at a part of the world over which he has power and for which he is answerable." The old name of the island, he reminded...
...credit by restricting the money supply. But in 1966, the board moved clumsily, swerving at midyear from monetary expansion at a 6% yearly rate to contraction at a 2% rate. Credit evaporated, investor buying power disappeared, and stocks collapsed. This year the money supply has expanded at a modest annual rate of about 21% - just enough, FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin hopes, to accomplish "disinflation without deflation." There is no sign that the FRB will soon make money any easier...