Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caribbean basin Mostly poor, politically volatile, dominated by a number of left-leaning politicians, the island nations comprise a modest bloc of about a dozen U.N. votes. Carter aims to increase economic assistance to the Caribbean area (current aid total: $65 million a year...
...that, the American market is dominated by such massive and well-entrenched firms as International Harvester, John Deere and Ford, and Belarus will do well to meet its modest sales target of 1,900 tractors annually by 1980. It will be many years more before tractor exports have any perceptible impact on the Soviet Union's giant deficit in trade with the U.S. (more than $2 billion last year). But it seems somehow fitting that the Kremlin, having become a large and steady customer for American grain, is supplying tractors to help plant and harvest the crops...
Tending the news and editorial pages takes far less of Sulzberger's office energies than preserving the paper's financial health. His surprisingly modest office on the Times building's 14th floor?part of a suite that includes a bedroom, bath, conference room and study?is dominated by a massive walnut desk that he commandeered from the Times archivist. Sulzberger is at that desk by 8 a.m. (many Times editors drift in around 11 a.m.; Sulzberger used to be known around the office as "the farm boy"), and spends an hour reading and answering mail. Following the lead...
Bright Talents. Proponents of the Pepper bill argue that its impact on younger workers will be modest, partly because generous pension plans, early retirement programs and other inducements have been drawing people out of the work force at ever earlier ages. For instance, at GM, where an assembly-line worker can retire after 30 years' service, irrespective of age, only 2% of the company's 748,000 employees actually stay on the payroll until...
...National Bank tried to slow down the flow by imposing a 10% quarterly negative interest rate on large nonresident accounts in Swiss banks. But most institutions got around the rule by accepting this nervous money in "fiduciary" (trust) accounts to be invested in Eurodollar deposits-a safe investment yielding modest returns. The safety of the investments was crucial, since by Swiss law the banks could not issue guarantees on the accounts without incurring a 35% withholding...