Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solarz pressed on: "Do you believe Cuba should send its troops into Rhodesia?" Jiménez answered lamely: "We are only modest students who have a certain level of information." Embarrassed silence greeted the Congressman when he asked if the Eritrean secessionists, whom Cuba used to support but now opposes, were counterrevolutionaries. Esteban Morales, one of the four professors present, tried to rescue his uncomfortable students with a little dialectical gobbledygook. "I consider that the analysis of this question," said Morales, "depends on a logical assessment of the concrete situation, and to evaluate, one must ask how to advance...
Wyman is troubled because nobody is pondering a strategy for food, a means to send America's agricultural resources and technology to the world's hungry peoples in exchange for at least a modest profit. Nobody is bringing together America's farmers, processors, agronomists, international distributors, and producers of fertilizers, pesticides and machinery. The first step, he says, is for these many forces to join "to figure out ways to distribute nourishment in the world. How do you feed 30, 40 or 50 million people hi the Third World so that they can live beyond an average...
...More modest joint ventures are already blooming in developed countries. For example, Europeans raise corn, but only as feed for livestock. Wyman's market researchers tested sweet corn on Europeans-and discovered that they love it every bit as much as people in Peoria do. So Green Giant joined with a cooperative of 7,000 farmers in the South of France to raise and process the stuff. This year the combine will sell almost 1 million cases of Géant Vert corn throughout Europe...
Many key industries are now hunkering down for a long period of only modest growth. Toyota Motor Co., which expects to sell 550,000 vehicles in the U.S. this year, vs. 561,000 in 1977, recently announced a scenario for the future that includes plans for eventually reducing its present capacity by 30%. Some firms, like the Tokyo Juki Co., a medium-size machinery maker, have put a freeze on wage boosts...
...flamboyantly avant-garde dramatist. His best-known play, Offending the Audience, did just that: insulted by the actors' dialogue and by the evident purposelessness of their actions, spectators stormed the stage when the drama was produced in Frankfurt. Handke's reputation in America is altogether more modest and is chiefly based on four novels that are less strident than his plays but every bit as puzzling and unsettling. The Left-Handed Woman, a novella, will provoke more admiration and head scratching...