Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With blue-chip backing from the likes of the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the commission set up in a modest office near the United Nations and recruited from those three world areas some 200 members in business, politics, academe and publishing. Seeking a political figure from the South, the commission asked Georgia's Governor Jimmy Carter to join. Carter, already contemplating a race for the presidency, was very responsive: he attended four of the first six Trilateral meetings over a span of 19 months. In his book, Why Not the Best?, Carter says the commission became...
Laser Beam. Her voice is only part of her appeal. At 31, Flicka is a trim size 8, with a modest but becoming bosom, rich brown tresses and a stage presence that somehow combines innocence and the poise of a pro. Says she, with disarming modesty: "I find solace in the fact that because of the ephemeral nature of the art, my performance, no matter how bad, cannot do permanent damage to Rossini...
...lean, tweedy, modest man, Britten hated it when people referred to this composer or that, even him, as "the greatest." "Of course you can be the tallest composer," he said once. "Alban Berg was probably the tallest composer and Mahler was probably the shortest. But how can you judge that a particular composer was the greatest? Today Bach is considered greater than Handel, yet 100 years ago the opposite was true." For Britten it was enough, as he put it, "if people want to hear what you have written." In his case they...
...Rosovsky suggests that if the Faculty can continue to monitor costs and achieve balance or a modest surplus this year, its energy "recently focused on cutting expenses, can be turned to the task of redeploying our resources more effectively...
Echeverria's Under Secretary for Natural Resources and as reform administrator of the chaotic Federal Electricity Commission before receiving the Finance Minister's portfolio in 1973. Though he took responsibility two years ago for pushing through Echeverria's modest tax increase on high incomes, López Portillo gained the respect of Mexican businessmen. Most of them, after six years of polemics with Echeverria, look forward to Don Pepe's presidency with relief...