Word: humbler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ground, the goal is to be in your face, not Coke's, and steadily increase Pepsi's presence by gaining a restaurant account here, an extra foot of shelf space there. For Pepsi, a company whose culture has always thrived on big-idea, renegade thinking, this is much humbler stuff. But, asks Marineau, "how do you become a Pepsi loyalist...
...affectation of fine writing, not does it lay claim to literary excellence. The Advocate has this ground by right of possession; we do not attempt to rival it in deux d'esprit, or in cunningness of speculation, or otherwise poach upon its preserves. We shall be content with the humbler task of satisfying the curiosity of our readers about what is going on in Cambridge, and at other colleges, and of giving them an opportunity to express their ideas upon practical questions. It ought to be added perhaps, that, while we made no pretension to wit, we hope...
...Hard Way: The Odyssey of a Weekly Newspaper Editor is a humbler story, set not in New York or Washington but in Kennebunk, Maine. The paper in question isn't an influential national daily with a staff of thousands and a news room the size of an airplane hangar, but a small weekly struggling to survive. The issues aren't Watergate or the Vietnam war, but whether the town should build a water tower behind a local church, and whether the school bus should change its route in order to pick up Herman Cohen's children...
...reclamation of the rest of Camden, for the moment, rests in the hands of humbler agents. Dotted throughout the city are a number of tiny oases where abandoned homes are restored and sold at cost to families in need of housing. One such venture is Heart of Camden, which has so far rescued 55 of the city's 4,000 abandoned homes. Three years ago, the group also decided to bring in youths from the state juvenile facility to help with the renovations; they now manage their own operation...
Black skies, rain squalls, a cutting wind. June in Wales. On a bald hill outside Cardiff sits the Polytechnic of Wales, a scruffy institute that aspires to university status. Along its main drive hundreds of people have gathered -- local dignitaries, students, faculty, many humbler school employees. So have several members of the press...