Word: modeste
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...modest Houstonian with the hinted Texas drawl and the no-bones, straight-arrow demeanor leans forward in his seat. Can he succeed in professional baseball...
...Through much hard work...we have been able to bring the school’s budget into balance and are presently projecting a balanced budget for [fiscal year 2004] and a modest $50,000 surplus for [fiscal year 2005],” Nye wrote...
Donahue noted that Harvard’s increase is modest relative to many of these schools with soaring fees...
...proud to have graduated from Harvard. But it’s pretentious to drop the H-bomb with everyone you meet by slamming a fat “Veritas” ring down on the table. Modesty is a virtue, and it’s not modest to wear 18 carats of gold that scream: “I went to Harvard.” Most people will ask you where you went to college pretty quickly. If they don’t care, you don’t need to tell them...
...exodus are hard to measure. What some experts are zeroing in on is the first-ever drop-off in workplace participation by married mothers with a child less than 1 year old. That figure fell from 59% in 1997 to 53% in 2000. The drop may sound modest, but, says Howard Hayghe, an economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "that's huge," and the figure was roughly the same in 2002. Significantly, the drop was mostly among women who were white, over 30 and well educated...