Word: modeste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...issue, the magazine showcased (gasp!) high-waisted jeans, kilts and tweed blazers. Seventeen advised readers to opt for below-the-knee skirts and higher-waisted pants. The look is in full force in stores, with Old Navy pushing Argyle tube tops and ballet flats and H&M stocked with modest blouses that Paris Hilton wouldn't be caught dead in. Even perennially preppy retailers like J. Crew are taking the look a step further with navy schoolboy blazers that have polished brass buttons...
...meantime, members of the CR movement are proceeding with their personal experiments in consumption. Although early CR advocates tried extreme diets, hoping to live to 120 or beyond, most current practitioners take a more moderate approach and have the more modest goal of staving off illness. For the past five years, Andrea Tiktin-Fanti, 61, of Uhrichsville, Ohio, has been adhering to a 1,200-calorie-a-day diet--about half what U.S. women typically eat. Diabetes killed both her parents in their 60s, but her diabetes is under control, thanks to her Spartan diet. "If I live...
...account. She's already being mentioned in the same breath as legends Dawn Fraser and Shane Gould. A marketer's dream, Henry appears set to become Australia's new, ever smiling, Queen of Swimming. Trying to play down the attention and any dramatic changes her success may bring, the modest Brisbaneite said about her exploits: "It's just a sport. It's great to have a gold medal but, you know, the people I go home to will be the same people I went away from...
Hastings, 43, is modest about his firm. "I'm a funny kind of guy to be running a consumer company," he says, admitting that he would just as soon discuss artificial intelligence. He thinks he can win the battle with WalMart, which launched a copycat service in 2002, and Blockbuster, which plans to try a similar rental program in the U.S. soon. Hastings has an advantage: like Amazon, Netflix relies on ratings--up to five stars--by its members, who are asked to weigh in on what they rent. These ratings go into the system's algorithm, and out come...
Disregard any stock movement on the heels of bell-ringer news like fraud charges or a new asbestos liability. But modest earnings surprises that cause a stock pair to decouple often present opportunity--a rare commodity in a market going nowhere...