Word: modeste
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When Microsoft started hunting Yahoo in February, many assumed that the software behemoth would bag the company swiftly and efficiently. Yahoo seemed to be classic weak Web prey, wobbling financially while rival Google continued to dominate the online world. Now, just days after Microsoft's threat to take its modest offer directly to shareholders, Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang is fighting back...
...first 100 or so pieces produced by Shanghai, only 12 passed the modest quality standards, which required the watches to neither gain nor lose more than 120 seconds a day. But these unreliable prototypes, Chan explains, provided the basis for the mass-produced A581 - launched in July 1958 and adorning many Chinese wrists until its discontinuation in 1967. Millions of A581s were made, which means that today they are relatively easy to pick up in Shanghai curio stores from about $15 (variations in dial color and casing style will affect the price). Chan is also a fan of the A623...
...that Kenya would avert a meltdown, but anxieties have simmered as the two political coalitions bickered over the allocation of ministries. Kibaki may have tied his own hands by his post-election decision to hand out the most powerful Cabinet positions to his allies, leaving only a few, relatively modest posts unfilled. Analysts have suggested that Kibaki is coming under strong pressure from ministers he has already named to resist making compromises...
...Lecture videotaping needs to be expanded. At only modest effort and cost, lecture videos provide students a valuable study tool and an additional avenue of learning. Professors need to stop venerating class attendance and start thinking pragmatically...
...explanations for wearing the hijab often start with modesty. But modesty, like religiosity, is relative. Who am I to say that I am more modest than someone else just because I cover my hair? I cover because God commanded it in the Qur'an. Wearing the hijab is first and foremost an act of worship and obedience; after that, it serves to check my modesty...