Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right Man. As early as 1956, Evsei Liberman had published an article in Kommunist suggesting that local plant efficiency and quality could be improved by greater emphasis on profitability. For Liberman, then still an obscure scholar in a provincial school, it was merely the modest proposal of a man who knew the day-to-day problems of a plant manager...
Usually, the development of skiing as an industry is undertaken by groups of professional investors. Occasionally, however, genuine skiers will edge into the business, although almost always on a very modest scale. The following is an account of such an instance...
...rising everywhere, has now reached a worldwide record of 38 Ibs. annually per person. The Dutch set up a sugar industry for Ethiopia, where coffee was traditionally seasoned with salt and spices, and so converted the Ethiopians to sweetness that they have now become modest exporters of sugar. Turkey has also become an exporter, and so has Bolivia, which ran up a 22,000-ton surplus last year and is trying to teach its Indian population to like sugar. Chile now saves $20 million annually by refining domestic sugar beets, has also fattened its cattle industry by feeding livestock...
...very good concept, because you're always thinking of what you ought to be and not what you are." Sarah is 13 and an agnostic who nevertheless keeps a reproduction of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling above her bed. She lives in a modest frame house in Mill Valley, near San Francisco, and licks stamps for Snick when she is not demonstrating for one cause or another. Zealously committed, she wanted to join the sit-ins at Berkeley, but her mother would...
Admission to the limited number of places "is now decided completely on the basis of entrance exams," Tigyi added, "but two years ago such factors as class origin gave an advantage to students of modest descent...