Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late last May, when many students had already been forced to forege the pleasure of reading the CRIMSON in order to study some long-neglected textbooks, a modest, unsensational article announced a rather important decision: the old distribution system for football tickets had been dropped...
Lunden and Bolles, who had feared a hatchet squad, found the Schaffer committee thorough, thoughtful, and modest in its demands. When the probe was finished, the HCUA issued a public report calling for some changes in hockey and swimming ticket arrangements, and privately talked over putting in a simpler football ticket system...
...business strategy on the hard fact that the day is past when wine merchants could live on the custom of a wealthy handful who regarded a cellar as incomplete if it did not include a pipe (126 gallons) of carefully chosen port. Now wine buyers are mostly a modest lot who purchase a few bottles at a time. But there are more of them. Harvey's today exports to 130 countries. Its Bristol Cream, Milk and Dry have one-third of the growing sherry market in the U.S. (where most people assume that Harvey's sells nothing else...
...budget of $57,000, derived entirely from student fees of only $570 a year. What makes this possible is his big hidden asset: the 300 or more U.S. professors who descend on Paris each year for research and sabbaticals. They can be had for part-time teaching at such modest fees that American College is opening with 15 seasoned scholars, including Dartmouth Sociologist George Theriault, Holyoke Government Professor Claire Doubrovsky and Cornell's African expert, Political Scientist Elizabeth Landis...
Atlas has reprinted articles from nearly 300 foreign publications and-as a sort of intramural endorsement-now does business with 18 U.S. publications eager to reprint its reprints. Foreign publications nearly always agree to Atlas' modest terms, which read the same in any language: payment is as small as possible...