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When it comes to Springfest, student organizers Justin H. Haan ’05 and Jack P. McCambridge ’06 are a lot of things. Modest is not one of them...
...tend to the fiscal health of the historically cash-strapped school. The KSG ran a massive $5.9 million deficit in fiscal year 2002, but Nye’s belt-tightening measures—which included the elimination of 47 staff and adjunct faculty positions—generated a more modest $84,495 surplus last year...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers said that the “modest increase is in line with the fact that America has a modest increase in inflation...
...tapes, Museum of Television and Radio panel discussions, a never shot episode script, and commentary tracks by the producers, writers, studio executives, actors--and even the actors' parents. It is one of the most insanely complete TV artifacts ever and, at $120, one of the most expensive. (A more modest, six-disc set sells in stores for about $70.) Executive producer Judd Apatow says the doomed series' crew had planned its shooting schedule with a DVD in mind. "We shot the final five episodes way before production ended," he says, "because we didn't know if we'd be allowed...
...brother Akira has no such grand visions. A bricks-and-mortar guy, he gravitated toward more modest, financially conservative projects. Rather than squabbling unproductively, the brothers parted ways in 1999, splitting the family empire into Minoru's Mori Building (with $1.3 billion in sales and 122 buildings under management) and Akira's Mori Trust ($949 million in sales and 68 buildings under management). "A boat can't have two captains," Akira says...