Word: modeste
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...DeLay said he is likely to leave by the end of May, depending on the Congressional schedule and finishing his work on a couple of issues. He said he will change his legal residence to his condominium in Alexandria, Va., from his modest two-story home on a golf course here in the 22nd District of Texas. "I become ineligible to run for election if I'm not a resident of the state of Texas," he said, turning election law to his purposes for perhaps on last time. State Republican officials will then be able to name another Republican candidate...
Despite those obstacles and a decade after his initial fame (so much for speed to market), Yeganeh is taking his soup store national. He and a group of partners are expanding the Fifth Avenue tourist magnet (a few blocks from the modest original location) into a 1,000-store franchise called the Original SoupMan. Seventeen are open, with plans for 23 more this year in the U.S. and Canada. Yeganeh has also begun selling packaged soup in grocery stores in 14 states...
...patient. It is one more program that Congress mandates but does not pay for. "If you make me treat someone," says Dickson, "then you need to pay me. You can't have unfunded mandates in a small hospital." Although the Medicare drug act that passed last year provides for modest payments to hospitals that treat illegal aliens, Dickson says there is a catch that the U.S. government has yet to figure out. "How do I document an undocumented alien? How am I going to prove I rendered that care? They have no Social Security number, no driver's license...
...news is that the inoculation will most likely be effective in humans only at the highest doses. Furthermore, the results show that the vaccine - as it is currently constituted - would take two and perhaps three injections to achieve good protection. That is a problem, since the U.S.?s already modest stockpile of material to make an avian flu vaccine won?t stretch very far. In order to make the vaccine practical for a wider population, the scientific community, business and government must work together to figure out how to make the vaccine more effective at lower doses...
...book they can't keep their hands off is Spotless, a guide to household cleaning - and an unexpected blockbuster. Launched in December with a modest first print run of 12,000, the paperback compendium of "solutions to domestic disasters" has been reprinted 10 times and sold 138,000 copies; according to Nielsen BookScan, it's spent 15 weeks on the Top 10 bestsellers list, three of them at No. 1. "It's our best-selling title ever," says Jane Finemore, of publisher ABC Books. "Other titles have sold more than 100,000 copies, but over several months or years...