Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western diplomats would like to see the country play a more assertive role in world affairs. "They have a lot to offer," argues one. "Internationally, Luxembourg is the voice of 20th century Europeanism, the voice of reason in the Common Market, NATO and the U.N. But it is too modest." In fact one of President Kennedy's underlying reasons for inviting the Grand Duchess to Washington is to suggest that Luxembourg should use its moderating influence more readily. But the Luxembourgeois are not likely to change their ways. "When cats fight," they explain, "kittens should stay...
From the Mountain. After that first, promising nighttime test, Keyes and his associates decided to try their diode light at longer range. They set up shop on the top of Mount Wachusett, a modest peak (alt. 2,006 ft.) 34 miles from Lincoln Lab. The first long-distance experiments were not successful, mostly because of hastily assembled equipment. After many months of work, an improved transmitter pointed at Lincoln Laboratory from Mount Wachusett. The tiny gallium arsenide diode, only 0.01 in. in diameter, was placed precisely at the focus of a 5-in. reflecting telescope that concentrated its infra...
...Modest Proposal. Verolme has bought or built three shipyards in Holland and, expanding abroad in a pattern rare in the shipbuilding industry, three others in Ireland, Norway and Brazil. This week he arrives in Mexico to make final arrangements to build and operate a $60 million yard at Mazatlán that will construct tankers for Pemex, Mexico's national oil company. Verolme has also moved into manufacturing engines, textiles, electrical equipment, boilers and tanks. He now employs 10,000 people and has annual sales of between $90 and $130 million...
...months ago the Harvard Council for Undergraduates affairs quietly presented to the Administration several proposals for improving the conditions of rooms used for final examinations. Modest in its demands, the HCUA asked that new lighting be installed in several rooms, Sever 37 not be used at all, Lowell Lecture Hall receive a new blackboard, clocks be visible in all rooms, water coolers be available, sufficient writing boards be provided, and rooms near construction work not be scheduled for exams...
...years, he parlayed his family auto repair shop into a $670 million industrial empire (diesel engines, machinery, electrical equipment) that ranks among Spain's six largest private enterprises. Barreiros has just signed a contract to produce diesel engines, trucks and tractors in Colombia. He still lives in a modest apartment and sticks to his simple success formula: "Produce more to make more money, so you can buy more machinery to produce even more...