Word: modeste
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...private lives, how much fun was the past decade? For most Americans it was a time of struggling to keep up with everyone who seemed to be making it big. Now that the bubble of financial speculation has burst, people should - and do - feel entitled to accept more modest aspirations. The real estate market was a prime example of a 1980s torture track. Americans started thinking of housing as a vehicle for getting rich, rather than as just shelter, and it became an obsession. Author Ann Beattie, a chronicler of the baby boom, fled Manhattan in the mid-1980s...
...that it's a rally, exactly - even those modest gains were eroding as noon approached - but clearly something happened besides Alan Greenspan's bullish comments on free trade before the Senate (although a brief mention of the slowdown, with no bearish comments along with it, may have played a tiny part). TIME investing columnist Dan Kadlec has a few ideas...
...perfection as you can get in the newsmagazine field. For 78 years, Time has been the Somerset House of newsmagazines: elegant, balanced, highly polished, a red-bordered icon recognized around the world. How could we dare to change it? Answer: carefully. With this issue we gingerly introduce some modest design flourishes and a few new departments. The former, like our recently restyled table of contents, will (we hope) look so appropriate you'll think they've been around for years. The latter you can't miss. Among them...
...insecure, meagerly paid job in one of Europe's poorest countries. Yet this is exactly what Bozidar Djelic, a partner with consultancy McKinsey & Company, did when he accepted an offer to become Finance Minister in post-Milosevic Serbia. "I did not hesitate for a moment," Djelic recalls from his modest office in downtown Belgrade. "I have no doubt that this government can pull the country back on its feet...
...should tell her that there is the news of the honest broker. And the news of the fair-minded. And of the modest, the quiet, the traditional, the faithful, the harmless, the on time, the responsible, the unglamorous, the unambitious, the unchatty, the constant and the tender...