Word: modeste
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...years. SilverSingles.com SeniorsCircle.com and Yahoo's ThirdAge Personals are among those that have grown steadily by focusing on an older age group. Most sites cost $20 to $30 a month. Others are free to join but charge for every e-mail or chat session. Unfortunately for older daters on modest incomes, an AARP membership doesn't buy any dating discounts online...
...What is clear is that for most Australians, John Howard, with his now unchallenged aura of solidity and reliability, and his modest fourth-term agenda - addressing Australia's skills shortage was his first-stated goal in his last campaign address - is the man for the times. "The Australian people have given their answer," he told the crowd on Saturday night. "We thank them for that and we start work immediately to justify and fulfill the trust that they have given to all of us today." At 7:45 the next morning, he was back on the streets of Kirribilli, near...
...extra cost could be repaid from fuel savings in about three years. Our proposals would expand car buyers' range and freedom of choice and increase automakers' profits and competitive strength. Amory B. Lovins, CEO Rocky Mountain Institute Old Snowmass, Colorado, U.S. Let the World Vote Simon Robinson's "a modest proposal: Global Suffrage" suggested that Americans should let the rest of the globe vote in the U.S. presidential election [Sept. 27]. Robinson expressed exactly what I and many other Europeans feel: since the U.S. President is the most powerful person in the world and every decision he makes - not only...
...World Cup victory. (John Hendricks, chairman of Discovery Communications, was so "intoxicated" by the World Cup victory, he persuaded his cable brethren at Comcast, Cox and Time Warner, which owns TIME magazine, to help fund the start-up.) This time around, DiCicco says, the WUSA will rely on modest one-year figures. "Potential owners told us they're not going to believe anything we project," he explains. "They said, 'Don't waste your time.'" And even the one-year numbers are more conservative. For example, when the WUSA debuted, top players were paid salaries of up to $93,000. Says...
...view is right: that [economic] catch-up in China may lead to a lower level and rate of growth of GDP per capita in the U.S. I am not advocating tariffs. We are so much richer than China that it may be desirable for us to make a modest sacrifice to raise their standards of living. But better still is for us to take measures that will be advantageous both to China and to us. It is obscene for us to ignore the effects [of outsourcing] on those who are hurt by it. Surely we are rich enough...