Word: modeste
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...recently as five years ago, this ability - plus a native braininess and a healthy dose of opportunism - had earned her a regular seat at soirées in the Washington-New York City-Los Angeles triad, as well as a modest media profile. She was once referred to as "the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus." (Watch an interview with Huffington...
...Geithner provides answers to these questions in his rollout later this week, he may start to turn the corner on public skepticism toward him, the bank plan and the government's recovery efforts. He might even spark a stock-market rally. But the banking industry's hopes are more modest: "As long as he comes out with details on the public-private investment fund, then it's not a miss," says Talbott. If he doesn't, he'll have an even bigger mess on his hands. Alabama Senator Richard Shelby - the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee - Senator John...
...House community, unlike the Kirklanders there. Otherwise, sophomores should be prepared to share cramped bedroom quarters, in exchange for a sizable common room. While the unattractive monolith that is New Quincy is often cited as the House’s greatest drawback, inside, juniors can get spacious singles with modest common rooms, and seniors can get massive common rooms complete with picture windows. In the days of party grants, Quincy was notorious for offering a host of possible party locales to the masses every weekend. The balcony suite, which combines two gigantic senior common rooms, is arguably...
...anonymity because he is negotiating a severance package with his former employer, is another expat who has been living parsimoniously since being laid off. In the boom years, he occupied a spacious sea-view apartment near downtown Singapore that rented for $5,000 a month. Today he occupies more modest digs, paying about $700 a month for an apartment he shares with a friend. "I'm interested in creature comforts like hot water, but I can do without joining a country club or driving a Lamborghini," he says...
...Westerners who elect to stay need to lower their expectations. Ex-hedge fund manager Rudajev is adjusting to a humbler lifestyle. After his fund closed, he accepted a sales position at a Singapore-based stock brokerage for a modest salary. "We're not eating out as much," he says. "We're cutting back on holidays." Even so, he has decided not to pull his two children out of their international schools, and he still frequents the American Club sports bar, where the TV screens hanging from the ceiling blare more CNBC financial news than football or tennis. Most evenings...