Word: modeste
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Clark is a model of frugality as well. She and her husband Dorrance raised 10 children on modest salaries. When he developed lung cancer in 1991, she stopped working to care for him until he died. She has lived in the same house since she was 1 year old. She seldom buys anything for herself, reuses already reused sewing material and carefully budgets her food money. "You plan out what you can afford," she says...
...many of his advisers, the President decided to impose tariffs on imported steel to please voters in key swing states like Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. When the corporate scandals rocked Wall Street, O'Neill and Greenspan devised a plan to make CEOs accountable. Bush went with a more modest plan because "the corporate crowd," as O'Neill calls it in the book, complained loudly and Bush could not buck that constituency. "The biggest difference between then and now," O'Neill tells Suskind about his two previous tours in Washington, "is that our group was mostly about evidence and analysis...
Pister's company, Dust Inc., which he founded in January 2003, has a modest $6 million in start-up funding and 25 employees. The company racked up about $1 million in sales during its first year, but analysts say the mote market could be worth $50 billion in 10 years' time and the price, currently $50 a mote, could easily come down to less than 10¢ each in the same period...
Studies show that ephedra can promote modest short-term weight loss (an extra pound per month), apparently by somewhat suppressing appetite and boosting metabolism. In combination with caffeine, it may also jolt the muscles enough to enhance athletic performance for brief spurts...
From Milan boardrooms to Parma dairy farms, Calisto Tanzi was long viewed as a model Italian entrepreneur--modest, hardworking and, above all, generous. Over four decades, as he built Parmalat, the food company he founded in Parma in 1961, into a worldwide giant with annual sales of $9.6 billion, he showered the town with his philanthropy. A pious Catholic, Tanzi helped pay for a major restoration of Parma's 11th century basilica. He poured cash into the local pro-soccer team, restored the theater and financed programs for the poor, AIDS patients and drug addicts. "He has got that impulse...