Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classrooms closer to passage than ever before, NDEA--with annual appropriations of $90 million--seems pretty small potatoes. It was not a program to hike teachers' salaries or raise new and gleaming schoolhouses across the land; these goals, although admirable, require big league expenditures. NDEA's objectives were more modest, but in its own way the program has abetted a quiet revolution in American education...
...only in dollars, and English measurements given where the metric system is used. U.S. appliance makers are missing a booming market overseas because they refuse to adjust to the varying electric voltages abroad. Electric turbine makers often do not gear their powerful and complicated products down to the more modest needs of emerging nations. There are, said Hodges, "many cases of just plain incompetent or careless business practices...
...Modest Messiah. Despite such latent opposition, Ben Bella is counting on the turbaned peasant masses, along with the popular national army of enigmatic No. 2 man, Colonel Houari Boumedienne, to keep him in power. Ben Bella's immediate problem is reviving the economy, and last week, on the eve of the presidential vote, he announced a timely boost from the Soviet Union-a $100 million loan to Algeria. Although disbursement details had yet to be worked out on paper, Russia thus becomes Ben Bella's second most important helper after France, which has promised up to $700 million...
...reform and economic development in Latin America. As "brick and mortar" evidence, he noted that U.S. Alliance funds, amounting to $1.5 billion in the past two years, have helped build 140,000 homes, 8,000 classrooms, 1,500 water systems and 900 hospitals and clinics; eleven nations have made modest starts on tax reform, twelve others on land reform. But Moscoso still feels glum. "We were just beginning to make real progress," he says, bitterly, "and now Congress has clobbered...
...major corporations have such unusual management. Four brothers, sons of Founder William M. Davis, run Winn-Dixie as a team. James Elsworth Davis, 56, is chairman, and Artemus Darius Davis, 57, president; both maintain modest offices in the company's headquarters at Jacksonville, Fla., where they are known as Mr. J. E. and Mr. A. D. Brother Austin Davis, 52, is executive vice president in Miami, and Tine Davis, 49, has the same title in Montgomery. Each has an equal say in management and draws the same "salary" (one-half percent of pre-tax profits, less $25,000, which...