Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Undecided Russians. The bank, which will be a regional version of the World Bank, will start off with modest aims, considering the problems that Asia faces. It will make only businesslike loans (for 20 to 25 years at 5½%), thus placing beyond its range such grand designs as President Johnson's proposal that the Mekong River be transformed into an Asian TVA project. The bank's capital will be chiefly in hard currencies supplied by governments. Most of the money has already been pledged: $200 million each from the U.S. (subject to congressional approval) and Japan...
...Despite rising prosperity in the U.S. and Europe, the flow of aid from these sources has remained static since 1961 at $9 billion a year, now amounts to a trifling .9% of the developed nations' total output of goods and services. Last week Lyndon Johnson signed a comparatively modest $3.2 billion foreign-aid appropriation, but the U.S. still carries more than its share of aid. Despite nudging from Washington, Europe has been slow to pick up its part of the burden...
...naive to soft-pedal the population explosion as "more myth than menace." "A modest growth of 18% per decade, one-half what it was 100 years ago," is not so benign. Eighteen percent of present population is 34.7 million; 36% of 1865 population is only 12.6 million...
...bright men. most of whom can work for any firm they'd like, but who came because--well, how often do you get a chance to talk to a man who was Vice-President? Nixon wanted to be more than a museum piece, and so he tried to be modest, to talk of things lawyers talk about. Like others who come to see law students, he was there to sell his firm--one that's been on the way up since Nixon joined it. He stressed that it's possible to be active in politics while in his firm; "were...
...drive has averaged about $30,000 in contributions from its door to door campaigns in the past. But never have the charities on its recommended list been of such modest proportions. "In this way," Walker said yesterday, "each charity will definitely feel whatever we manage to raise for them...