Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev's assurance that the 3000 Soviet troops in Cuba would not be converted from a training unit into a combat force was a "modest, but nonetheless important achievement" for Carter, Dominguez said...
...these intrusions are pretentious; the director seems to be trying to convince himself that Yanks is something more than a tearjerker. In the process, he insults the audience. Director Schlesinger should not be ashamed to have made Yanks, any more than viewers should be embarrassed to respond to its modest pleasures...
...baleful opinion is expressed by a captive member of the Dutch Parliament. The tour of inquiry also includes clergymen, a woman college president, a journalist, an English don, a U.S. Senator and a Middle East expert from Buffalo. The art collectors are mostly codgers who, among them, own a modest share of the world's old masters. It is not easy: "The penalty of owning great works of art, or even itsy-bitsy ones, was that the minute anything out-of-the-way happened, your thoughts flew to them like a mother bird to the nest...
Economic development of the homelands is totally dependent on outside investment, about 60% of which comes from South Africa; overseas investment provides the rest. This year the Pretoria government will contribute $35 million to Venda's modest budget of $43.6 million. Despite attempts by South Africa to promote industry in the black territories, the results have been unimpressive: fewer than 75,000 jobs have been created for black workers in the homelands...
Once a profitable puddlejumper, Air New England expanded rapidly after it won certification in 1975 from the Civil Aeronautics Board. Perhaps too rapidly. It now struggles to maintain a schedule of 200 flights a day with scant working capital and a modest fleet of 20 propjet planes, which include its own 19-seat De Havilland Twin Otters and 48-passenger Fairchild 227s and two leased 50-seat Convair 580s. Seldom are there planes available for back-up use. So even though Air New England is classified in the same category as national carriers like Eastern and United, it continues...