Word: modeste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When London-based Atlantis Investment Management launched a fund in medium-sized Chinese companies last March, the fund's size was a modest $15 million. Eleven months later, the stocks in its portfolio have doubled and the inflow of new money from eager investors has swelled its value to $116 million. "Europeans want to get exposure to what's happen-ing in China," says James Alexander, Atlantis' head of marketing. While the big jump in prices has made some investors wary, he says "there's still plenty of demand." That may be the understatement of the year. Chinese stocks, particularly...
...Late last month, to a modest amount of media applause, ?CBS SM? turned 25. Host Charles Osgood and his crew threw themselves a nostalgic little party, opening the video scrapbook on the January 25 broadcast and whisking the dust from some venerable stories to air them again. Twenty-five in TV years is ancient; only a liver-spotted handful of weekly shows have lasted that long. But ?CBS SM? is, by nature, older than that - forever looking back, finding resonance in an anniversary or obituary, as if it were the memory bank for the Alzheimer?s generation...
...many feel that professors themselves should take the initiative to retire at a modest...
...Trevor-Roper formed a triumvirate of gifted scholars whose efforts to understand the turmoil of the 20th century widely influenced modern thought. After spending World War II as a BBC correspondent, Bullock produced his Hitler biography from a detailed review of the minutes of the Nuremberg trials. He was modest about his talents. "I couldn't write great literature," he said, "but I could do a workmanlike job as a historian...
...will be given to the New England Patriots' Bill Belichick and the Carolina Panthers' John Fox during Sunday's Super Bowl XXXVIII, in Houston. Fox may try to mute the two coaches' importance--"He and I aren't going to play a single snap"--but he can hardly be modest about his achievement since taking the Panthers' reins early in 2002. No other NFL team has gone from a 1-15 season to the Super Bowl in just two years. Underdogs all this season, the Panthers relied on an insistent running game and a demolishing defense. They got to Houston...