Word: modeste
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...worried about the tyranny of the majority. My peers generally know as little about beer as I do about cosmopolitans, so I was afraid that these House votes would only widen the selection available in Loker to Dos Equis and, gasp, Red Hook. Lo and behold, not even these modest heights were reached. The most interesting beer to come out of the House votes was Magic Hat #9, and nothing from Sierra Nevada even made the cut. Cabot House should be wiped off the beer-map for picking Busch Light...
...critics tripping over one another in their effusive exaltations of the well-paced storytelling in “Million Dollar Baby,” is again basking in the warm glow of praise from some of film’s top tastemakers. Still, the director retains a modest view...
While Brazil and Argentina struggle, the two other largest debtors, Mexico and Venezuela, are continuing to make strides toward easing their credit crunches. Venezuela, which has a 16.9% inflation rate that is modest by Latin American standards, has reached a tentative accord with its banks to stretch out payments on $20.8 billion of its $35 billion debt over 12 years. Bankers have agreed to give Mexico until 1999 to finish making payments on $28.6 billion of its $96 billion debt. Mexico gained the confidence of the bankers by reducing its inflation rate from 100% in 1982 to 59% last year...
...when the swelling magma chamber prepared to blow, the humor quickly subsided. And the audience turned quiet as a modest eruption turned into a worldwide catastrophe...
...Lost and Safe seems to take a step back, de-personalizing their songs in what seems like a greater effort to synthesize the “collective unconscious” that their songs aim for with flat, unemotional singing sounding something like a glitchy Schneider TM remix of a Modest Mouse-The Shins hybrid...