Word: modeste
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...latest round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) was supposed to make Diarra's modest wishes come true. Launched in 2001 and named for the Qatari city where the initial meeting was held, the Doha "development" round is intended to thrash out new trade arrangements for agriculture, with a specific focus on reducing the rich world's subsidies and opening Western markets to the developing world's producers. In return, the vision goes, the developing world will allow more access to its service industries, such as insurance and banking...
...could have done the same job with just snare, bass, and hi-hat). Sometimes sounding like art-pop legends 10cc covering Prince, and other times sounding completely themselves, Spoon delivered all the fun their fad-clad audience could’ve hoped for. Doing as much as Modest Mouse and others to blur the lines between what is respectably indie and guiltily radio-friendly, Daniel and company are helping to usher in a new era that will hopefully win back the radio from cookie cutter hip hop. Maybe the artfully unkempt throng of Spoonophiles is on to something...
...think tank, just a day before the Futenma agreement, Lawless stunned his audience by blasting the inertia, complacency and inadequacy of Japan's armed forces. Rather than offering the usual congratulations for support in Iraq and the Indian Ocean, Lawless called Japan's military initiatives over the years "quite modest." Japan's defense planning, Lawless said, was "episodic rather than systemic ... reactive rather than proactive." Lest there be any doubt about the message, Lawless spelled it out: "Japan must start doing things for itself that it has historically expected the U.S. to do on its behalf. We have to bring...
...early afternoon on Nov. 9, a squad from Indonesia's U.S.-trained anti-terrorist group Detachment 88 had surrounded the modest, single-story dwelling. Calls for surrender were met with bullets, police say, and a four-hour standoff ensued, during which Azahari and another man threw 11 explosive charges at officers. In the end, according to the police, Azahari was shot and killed before he could detonate his bomb vest, but his companion set off an explosion, killing himself...
...female nurses, asking for medical histories and lifestyle information—including coffee consumption. These were compared with incidence of physician-reported and self-reported high blood pressure. The study, published last Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found a “modest inverse U-shaped relation” between coffee consumption and hypertension after controlling for other factors such as diet and smoking. While not disputing the short-term increase in blood pressure and stress hormones found by other studies, one of the authors of the report, Dr. Gary C. Curhan, suggests people who drink...