Word: modeste
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...summit is too ambitious. Relationships are built slowly, carefully. Groundwork must be done at the ministerial level. Diplomats are cautious, and they don't like to stage a summit unless a deal has been precooked. Fine, but a beginning must be made. The ultimate deal could be something as modest as a vague statement of mutual purpose: "We, the undersigned, agree that Iraq should continue to exist within its current borders with a federal government that represents all existing ethnic and religious interests." Or it could be as ambitious as the Afghanistan process, or even more ambitious. It is obvious...
...exhibition season is over. The Democratic contenders spent the first quarter of 2003 testing and proving themselves in the political compulsories of raising money and building an organization. They had some noisy arguments over the prosecution of a war that only four of them had voted for. They offered modest, mostly recycled proposals here and there. And there were a few joint appearances before left-leaning interest groups who demanded little more than fawning tributes and Bush-baiting applause lines. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, sidelined to his sofa by surgery last February, sized up his competition on CSPAN as they...
...sits in his modest third-floor office at the Kennedy School of Government, it is easy to forget that Bok is speaking from long experience in positions of authority...
James Watson and Francis Crick worked out the structure of the DNA double-helix at Cambridge University, announcing their much-celebrated discovery in a modest one-page letter to the journal Nature that was published 50 years ago today...
...years, my career goals have been modest: I have wanted only a job that doesn’t involve being daubed with white greasepaint and pretending to be trapped in an invisible box. As these criteria are fairly broad, I have not given much thought to what I’ll do after graduation. Last summer, while other Harvard students spent long hours hunched over desks in Goldman Sachs, I sold train tickets to German tourists. There was, I convinced myself, a winsome kind of virtue in my refusal (well, inability) to start climbing the rungs of the career ladder...