Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program in which teachers travel with nomadic tribesmen and at each stop pitch a white school tent alongside the tribes' black goat-hair tents. The Shah also decided that each schoolchild should have a free daily glass of milk - an impossible task for the country's modest dairy industry. Even imported powdered milk would not improve the situation...
...Even security can be an obstacle. After elaborate negotiations, Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager was chauffeured to his recent rendezvous with Arafat, who is head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, through the twisting streets of Lebanon's capital in a guerrilla staff car. Prager met Arafat in a modest flat in a nondescript apartment building guarded by fedayeen armed with Soviet AK-47 assault rifles...
President Ford's modest proposals are not likely to do much harm, but neither are they likely to do much good. Instead we should recognize and address ourselves to the structural changes in our economy...
...high school senior last year in Lompoc, Calif., Patrick Cole wanted to go on to college outside his native state, but the cost seemed beyond him. He had saved only $200 from his part-time job and did not want to turn to his family's modest income for more help. Then Cole discovered that he had some other resources: he is black, Catholic, interested in theology, and gets good grades. He took advantage of those characteristics and this fall is a freshman at the University of Notre Dame, supported by four scholarships totaling...
When Cox called in May 1973, Neal's private law practice was beginning to prosper. The son of a farm family of modest means, Neal had a comfortable life. His small farm boasted a tennis court, and he had enough leisure to use it and to spend time with his wife and two children. He told...