Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prices vary, ranging from about $25 for a plain colonial or modern lamp to about $500 for a refurbished antique. The lamps burn night and day, but even so, the total cost is a modest $1 to $4 a month...
...hospitals, and began a program to resettle 500,000 Bolivians from the barren plateau to the more fertile valleys. A firm friend of the U.S., he gave ardent support to the Alliance for Progress, created so favorable an economic climate that foreign capital began to flow in, bringing a modest boom...
...picks up New York and Philadelphia as well as Scranton; TelePrompTer plans a Farmington, N. Mex., system that will use twelve microwave relays to bring in Los Angeles, 800 miles away. Cable TV's profitability also upsets the telephone companies, which rent the poles for CATV cables at modest costs. The onetime $1.50-$2 charge per pole has risen to $3-$5. Southern Bell recently announced that it would limit new CATV service, but in some instances is willing to lease its own equipment for CATV...
...calculated munificence will reverberate throughout the economy, the biggest individual beneficiaries will be five elderly men who had the good sense to become the largest shareholders in the firm. All but one of them got in very early, when both the company and U.S. income taxes were modest...
...Canadian citizen since 1942, thomas Bata at 50 is one of the nation's most successful businessmen. He is also one of the most modest in his habits; he does not smoke, drinks sparingly, entertains mostly at business lunches, but allows himself the flair of driving a '64 Mustang. Bata alternates between his Toronto office and his principal manufacturing plant at Batawa, a small town 110 miles east of Toronto named after the company. He frequently wears odd shoes to test his own against competitors', stresses the low-price policy (no Bata shoes cost more than...