Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stock holdings in Rand Mines, Engelhard's interests controlled an estimated 15 per cent of South African gold mining industry during the '60s. Indeed, it was through his entry into the South African gold industry during the early '50s that Engelhard first started to turn his father's relatively modest metals business into a global powerhouse. Setting himself up as a bullion dealer in South Africa, Engelhard beat restrictions on the export of newly mined gold by manufacturing solid gold art items--solid gold pulpit tops, dishes, bracelets. Once legally exported in this manner, they would be melted down into...
...standards, this pair should be politically extinct--confined to the junkheap of rusted-out racists like George Wallace and Lester Maddox. It was Thurmond, after all, who led the Dixiecrat walkout at the 1948 Democratic convention over Harry Truman's modest civil rights proposals and soon earned a reputation as the Senate's foremost segregationist. Television commentator Helms used race to boost him to the Senate...
Last week, camped temporarily in a modest office at Fort Bragg, his desk flanked by a general's flag and a pile of cardboard boxes stuffed with his personal papers, Sam Walker sounded like a soldier suffering from battle fatigue. "I've thought time and time again: What did I ever do wrong...
...whether the Carter program can help much even over the long haul. It is a package of practical measures aimed at making the U.S. more competitive in world markets, and of policy directives intended to alleviate Government obstacles to trade. On the practical side, the President ordered a modest expansion of the federal machinery that helps American businessmen sell their goods abroad. For example, the Export-Import Bank, which provides low-cost loans to foreign buyers of American goods, will be given more generous financing. Also, the Small Business Administration has been authorized to advance as much as $100 million...
Wilson finds a divergence in male and female behavior that he believes is dictated by genes. "In general," he says, "girls are predisposed to be more intimately sociable and less physically venturesome." But he calls this "a modest genetic difference" that could be overcome by careful training. While reaffirming his belief that homosexuality is also biologically based, Wilson sees "a strong possibility" that it evolved as an important element in early human society. His reasoning: by not breeding themselves, homosexuals allow more resources to be devoted to relatives, thus improving their chances of surviving and reproducing...