Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trains. Visionary Stardust glittered from many of the President's other proposals. He wants a modest $20 million to study the possibility of a highspeed (200 m.p.h.) train between Washington and New York, and he will seek federal authority to control industrial air and water pollution. Both measures will probably pass easily. But he will find it harder to get funds to set up his suggested National Foundation for the Arts-if he really tries it. Congress' traditional distaste for spending tax money on culture cuts across liberal-conservative or even party lines...
...gives an impression about the International Executive Service Corps that should be corrected. It is the purpose of IESC to assist those businesses in developing countries that are unable to employ qualified advisers. IESC will not, therefore, confront management consultants with "cut-rate competition." Rather, it seeks in a modest way to raise the level of performance of individual businesses and so create conditions more favorable to all types of business activity...
...problem new Premier Eisaku Sato faces, and he has made "a home for every family" by 1970 his government's rallying cry. His first budget, approved by the Cabinet last week, earmarks $727 million for new construction-enough for 337,000 new dwelling units, and a modest start toward his goal of 3,000,000 over the next seven years...
...modest, good-humored stargazer, who was born in The Netherlands and educated at Leiden University, did his most productive research after he came to the California observatories and became a professor at Caltech. He likes to deprecate his own achievements, but his colleagues agree that no man has contributed more to the study of the puzzling quasars that dot the universe...
When Gates ordered the phone company to stop these modest extensions, calling them a "tripping hazard," Cliffies took more drastic measures...