Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giant of the industry, will very soon sell its 23 billionth hamburger. A Texas chain called Church's Fried Chicken uses up 37 million pickled jalapenos per year. In 1976 the 700-plus units of Taco Bell consumed 1 million tons of beef-and that is a modest amount by the standards of McDonald's or Burger King...
...clapboard greasy spoon tucked invitingly along the two-lane highway, with three cars parked in front, all bearing out-of-state plates. Critics like to claim that the major chains are taking the adventure out of eating, that motorists are settling for Colonel Sanders instead of discovering the modest little boardinghouse that makes the best quiche Lorraine this side of Provence. True, perhaps, but one reason drivers keep turning to the finger-lickin' chicken is that they have been burned so often at Mom's and similar places. Restaurant surprises disappoint far oftener than they delight...
...delegates from the OPEC nations, including Iran's tough Oil Minister, Jamshid Amouzegar, rejected even the modest proposal for continuing energy discussions, which OPEC fears would reduce its power to control oil prices and supplies unilaterally. At the same time, the Southern nations refused to offer safeguards against nationalization of the North's investments. New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who was in a group of congressional observers at the conference, chided the Southern nations for their rigidity and urged them to think in terms not only of government aid but also of investment, business...
...U.Va. and captained the women's fencing team. She hand-letters medieval-style manuscripts for "relaxation" and this summer plans to take a course in Arabic at Georgetown University (because "it's absolutely gorgeous calligraphy") before sailing on the Queen Elizabeth II to England. Burke is modest about her scholastic feats. "I may be one of the first women Rhodes scholars to go to Oxford," she says, "but I could also be the first one sent home...
...some cases, the compilation of cash can only be understood as an intellectual challenge. Take rich Rich Dennis, 28, who is unmarried, lives with his parents in a modest Southside Chicago bungalow and is one of the world's smartest commodity traders. He has made close to $10 million. If you want to get rich, he advises, "you can't have the usual attitude toward money. If you think of every dollar you lose on the commodities market as a bucket of coal you'll have to shovel some day, then you're bound...