Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greek-born Christopher, 57, came to the U.S. as a two-year-old, rose from the tenements to amass a modest fortune as one of northern California's biggest independent dairy distributors. A city supervisor for ten years before becoming mayor, Christopher made his political personality as familiar to northern Californians as his milk bottles. He was a leading Rockefeller supporter in the 1964 presidential primary, whereas Southern California's Reagan made a name as a Goldwater speechmaker-a difference that Christopher emphasized, along with Reagan's lack of administrative experience, on a ten-city, hat-tossing...
...command the distant escarpments, and elephants, baboons and rhinos forage in the valleys of rivers bulging with hippos. But on rolling high veld, brushed with elephant grass and flowering jacaranda trees, the whites have carved out a tidy empire of modern tobacco farms and cattle ranches that has brought modest prosperity to the land. Taxes are low and so are prices; and, for whites, wages are high enough to permit all but the most menial workers their own cars, homes and servants. Salisbury, with a white population of 88,000 spread out over 30 square miles, claims more swimming pools...
...exceptionally profitable. Its return of only 8% on invested capital ranks it 43rd among the 50 largest utilities. By contrast, General Motors, which last week announced nine-month profits of $1.54 billion, the highest of any company ever, collects 22.8% on its capital. Reason for A.T. & T.'s modest return: as the nation's No. 1 private monopoly, it is sternly regulated and frequently investigated by Federal and state governments. Last week the Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to begin history's broadest investigation of the Bell System's interstate and foreign rates, costs and earnings...
...feeler from Cefis was snapped up by Esso, which ranks third in Britain and was delighted to add AGIP to its 8,000-station chain. Esso agreed to pay $11 million for the chain, a sum that gave ENI a modest overall profit on its investment and last week earned Cefis the compliments of Italian businessmen for consummating un buonissimo affare. Besides removing one of Esso's competitors and restoring the chain to private enterprise, the deal also gives Esso precious locations that it can utilize in its battle with leading British Petroleum and Shell...
...against such intolerable conditions that the seamen struck. Better pay and decent food, shore leave, protection against brutality-these were among the modest demands of men who continued to show their deposed officers elaborate courtesy and swore unshakable fidelity to the Crown. After token conciliation at Spithead, the government set its chin. In the Nore anchorage at the Thames mouth, a troubled old admiral named Charles Buckner listened with some sympathy to the complaints presented by the elected "president" of the mutineers, Richard Parker, the son of a grain merchant who had once been an officer himself but got cashiered...