Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record was made despite the decline of Curtis, one of the country's oldest magazine publishing houses. Although two of the four Curtis magazines that sell ad space showed modest increases-Holiday (4%) and American Home (7%)-overall ad revenue fell a precipitous 17%, from $132 million to $109 million, in the most disastrous year in Curtis' history...
...World Bank is no charity. When it makes a development loan, it expects the applicant to show that his project is well conceived and that his credit is good. The bank expects to make a modest profit on its international loans, and tends its business so shrewdly that in 16 years of lending it has not suffered a default. Last year the bank opened its vaults for $646 million in loans to 19 countries. Who got most of the money? Not Africa or Asia. Latin America...
With this success under his belt, modest Marshall Field, 46, could not resist a modest huzzah. He wished the ChandlerGraham axis all the best, he said. But then he added, with the confidence of a gentle man who has sensed the exhilarating aroma of power: "I would hope that at some future time they would team up with...
...than the British-run Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Resplendent with Venetian mosaics and bulletproof glass counters, the new Hang Seng building is an aluminum-and-glass monument to the ability of Chinese businessmen to ride out shifting political tides. In 30 tumultuous years. Hang Seng has grown from a modest gold changer with capital of $21,000 to Hong Kong's biggest Chinese-owned bank, with assets of $63 million...
...confined to the campus, and limited to two nights a week. Petting is a major offense, and a boy caught in the girls' dorm, or vice versa, is "shipped" (expelled). This is a fate to be feared, for many of the boarding students come from broken families of modest means. "I just love it and wouldn't leave for anything in the world," says one 15-year-old, whose remarried mother sent her to the school because "we didn't get along...