Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Narrow Curriculum. So it may, but meanwhile the segregation academies have had a hard time delivering "quality education." The problem is mainly a lack of money. Because few of the parents are wealthy, tuition fees must be kept modest (average: $300 a year). Attempts by Southern legislatures to help the segregation academies by providing state tuition grants have been struck down by federal courts. Thus the schools are now forced to live inadequately off tuition, plus whatever meager gifts they can attract...
...icky, sticky polypropylene plastic, looking like some improbable flotsam that had drifted in on a high tide, the last relic of a disposal civilization. The Aussies were taking it all in stride. Last weekend, some 2,500 of them happily trooped out to Little Bay and plunked down the modest 20? admission to see what this artist named Christo had wrought...
...year, the loss had turned into a modest over-all surplus of $400,000. Every indication is that this year's predicted deficit will also be cut when the actual figures are totaled...
...Model Cities agreement, the mediator received the blame and the praise. Dunlop, however, takes a modest view of his role: "The parties make the settlement, I only make suggestions." To make the proper suggestions takes imagination, and more important, sympathy. "No guy at that table has complete autonomy. To help him solve his problems, you have to know what his restraints are, what is his constituency." This expresses the vocabulary John Dunlop thinks with-constituencies and problem solving...
Before Pope Paul VI named him bishop of the modest diocese in late 1966, Fulton Sheen was best known for his conversions of famous people and for popularizing the Roman Catholic religion with his magnetic television personality. Eventually, he drew an audience of 30 million for his weekly program, called Life Is Worth Living, rivaling Comedian Milton Berle in Nielsen ratings...