Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...project will replace an abandoned gasworks, Washingtonians might have been expected to greet it with delight. Instead, a number of architects and critics are protesting vigorously that Watergate would hog Washington's skyline and dwarf nearby federal buildings. Watergate's architects pacified some of these critics with modest design changes, but are still fighting off an outfit called Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which sees dark meanings in the fact that Watergate is to be built by Italy's Societa Generale Immobiliare, in which the Vatican holds an estimated 20% stock...
...piecemeal attempts to deal with these problems which characterized Arthur Goldberg's brief career as Secretary of Labor were worse than useless; they distracted attention from the true dimensions of the problem. And while the Man-Power Retraining Program passed by the last Congress constitutes a modest beginning, one can forgive the I.T.U. and anyone else for being concerned when it appears that the President and his advisers consider it a whole program...
...Accountant Turner is part of a modest but highly effective organization through which Unilever, the world's sixth largest industrial complex, strives to brighten the lives of 15,000 retired employees in Britain. Unilever's Pensioners' Welfare Organization grew accidentally out of Britain's withholding tax. Writing its retired employees in 1944 to explain the new tax, the company got back what one official describes as "a shoal of letters" that had little to do with taxes. An elderly lady wrote a four-page note that ended, "I don't know...
...people at least twice a year, often take their wives along on the theory that women can spot problems that a pensioner may be too shy to talk about. At a cost of about $11,000 a year, Unilever reimburses visitors for their travel expenses and for the modest birthday or anniversary presents that each visitor is encouraged to give to the pensioners on his list. The only gift barred is cash. "Money may give the impression of charity," says a Unilever executive, "which is an impression we very much want to avoid...
Most pensioners on the Unilever visiting list held modest jobs in their days with the company, but any retired employee is visited if he wants to be. One newly named visitor, a retired secretary, discovered with apprehension that on her list was the name of a former Unilever director. Bravely bearding her man in his London hotel suite, the visitor to her astonishment was warmly welcomed and persuaded to stay for lunch. Says Unilever Pensions Officer Philip Clemow: "Senior people frequently are just as pleased to have someone take notice of them as those who were in junior jobs. Anyone...