Word: modeste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...little shed behind Joy Whitehouse's modest home is filled with aluminum cans--soda cans, soup cans and vegetable cans--that she collects from neighbors or finds during her periodic expeditions along the roadside. Two times a month, she takes them to a recycler, who pays her as much as $30 for her harvest of castoffs. When your fixed income is $942 a month, an extra $30 here and there makes a big difference. After paying rent, utilities and insurance, Whitehouse is left with less than $40 a week to cover everything else. So the money from cans helps...
...Government: they would receive a guaranteed pension; they would have company-paid health insurance until they qualified for Medicare; they would receive company-paid supplemental medical insurance after turning 65; they would receive a fixed death benefit in the event of a fatal accident; and they would have a modest life-insurance policy...
...receiver, but even then, I’d just play man-coverage and just run around and keep up with them.”You wouldn’t be able to tell after what has transpired this season.After senior Gary Sonkur went down with a preseason hamstring tear, modest and inexperienced Andrew didn’t believe it would mean anything significant for him.“At that point it never crossed my mind that I’d be starting, because I still had some guys ahead of me,” he said...
Henry: Is there something inherently wrong with Pitchfork, a phenomenon that sparked a convergence in the evolution of musical tastes and the boring conversations about who discovered Modest Mouse first? Maybe not. But there IS something wrong with taking any musical advice at its word, and, what’s more, with ignoring certain music because other people choose...
...spans most of Degas’ life. Iconic Degas images of ballet dancers and women bathing are paired with informal portraits of Degas’ family members and an abstract landscape he painted late in his career.Wolohojian did not suggest a specific path viewers should take through the three modest-sized rooms of the exhibit; navigating the gallery chronologically or thematically is not necessary. What is important is that viewers appreciate Degas’ artistic fusion—the way images and techniques in his work recur, evolve, and interact.The exhibit, Wolohojian explains, is arranged to make this fusion easier...