Word: modeste
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...maddeningly modest about it too. A few months ago, he was in a waiting room at a television station with Shane Gould, Australia's princess of the pool in Munich, 1972. She was showing him her Olympic medals and, noting his gaze, told him, "You'll have a bunch of your own soon." Thorpe replied, "I'd be happy with...
...While Haworth discovered weight lifting, Stacey Dragila was using coordination honed by years of goat roping at rodeos in a different contortion: pole vaulting. Dragila started experimenting with vaulting in the early 1990s after enjoying only modest success as a heptathlete. She is drawn to the daredevil aspect of the sport. "I think women have brought a lot of life back into the sport--first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it well. Two, part of it is that odd fascination some people have in watching athletes risk injury to win." Dragila, 29, is doing something...
...making Enron a leader in the booming telecommunications business. The plan isn't to go head to head with established fiber-optic carriers such as AT&T, Qwest and Williams Communications. Instead, Enron wants to use new switching technology and its expertise in trading pipeline access to transform a modest telecom network into a powerful arbiter of bandwidth. Enron's bet is simple: supply and demand will increase exponentially, turning bandwidth into a tradable commodity, just like gas and electricity. Along the way, why not partner with companies such as Blockbuster and use this new technology to offer content--like...
...cunning and insinuation to get your way; your hero is F.D.R. If you chose A, you're House material at best; the least well-regarded Presidents--Grant and Harding--were modest...
...know that lactic acid is just one of a group of compounds, called hydroxy acids, that can reduce wrinkles. The trick is to get the right concentration. Too much and you burn through too many layers. Too little and there's no effect at all. Even modest amounts irritate the epidermis a little, causing it to swell, which has the benefit of filling out some of those furrows...