Word: modeste
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...tuition at Beirut University is $100 per semester, and it shows. Debunking Harvard to all but students from the most affluent and prestigious universities worldwide will only run others’ perceptions of Harvard’s eager study abroad-ers into the ground. By trying to be too modest, Harvard students will only come off as too arrogant...
Prior to Saturday, Widman had caught only one pass in his collegiate career—a touchdown reception from Fitzpatrick in last season’s finale against Yale—and he is modest and frank in his early self-assessment...
...when those modest successes provided only a tenuous lead, Dawson effortlessly ratcheted his play up a notch. Just moments into the second quarter, the speedster absorbed a crushing hit on second-and-seven, then launched himself forward just across the 29-yard line for an eight-yard pickup...
...grow again, and also from the run-up to E.U. enlargement, as exports to new members in Eastern Europe surged. "Germany remains an export machine that keeps running and running," says Holger Schmieding, an economist at Bank of America. "Despite the strong euro, even Germany is having a modest upswing...
...many women ministers as men, and alternates them down the hierarchy, causing some to dub it la cremallera (the zipper). He canned the previous government's pharaonic €4 billion plan to divert water from the Ebro River in the north to drier regions further south, proposing a more modest desalinization program instead. He increased the minimum wage, pledged to do the same for pensions, and launched an unprecedented war against the dark side of Spanish machismo, stiffening laws against domestic violence and proposing the legalization of gay marriage and rapid, no-fault divorces. A radical democrat committed to feminism...