Word: modeste
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Giving up four goals in one game may not seem like a good weekend, even if the night before was a shutout. But in Grumet-Morris’ case, his performance this weekend can be seen as a modest success...
Hence the awful realization: preventing the next Sept. 11 will require America to engage the Arab world the way it engaged Europe and Asia a half-century ago. Totally. We have long recoiled from such an undertaking. For decades, we tried a far more modest approach to the Arab world. It had three parts...
...have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood." James Watson's mischievous opening line of The Double Helix raised many eyebrows at the time, but even Crick wouldn't quarrel with it now. Still brash and outspoken at 86, even without the booming laugh that once echoed through Cambridge's Cavendish lab, Crick has no reason for modesty. In the years since their discovery of the double helix, Crick, unlike Watson, has continued to do significant research, mostly by pondering big--and often controversial--theoretical questions rather than by toiling in the lab. Says his longtime colleague and fellow...
While FAS has not run serious budget deficits since the early 1990s, in light of today’s souring economy, red ink is no shock. FAS should not fear running modest deficits in continuing its expansion—nor should it rule out borrowing to cover its expenses for a few years. The Faculty should be able spend smoothly through the economy’s upswings and downswings—a desirable practice for a college looking to grow...
KUENSTNER: The market right now is saying, "Let's give a valuation kick to those stocks that already have high yields." But the next step is going to be the market finding those that currently pay modest dividends but have the wherewithal, like Microsoft, to pay more. And there will be pressure on certain nondividend companies, like Federated Department Stores [0%], to initiate one. Anybody who thinks department stores are a growth industry has questionable business acumen. They should pay a dividend...