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...could almost not care less. Grove doesn't spend his money on planes, giant homes or fast cars. He lives on a relatively modest scale. He and Eva plan to leave their daughters "comfortable," but the bulk of his fortune will go to charity. The Groves have endowed 10 chemistry scholarships at CCNY, made contributions to prostate-cancer funds and supported the International Rescue Committee, which brought Grove from Vienna to America. (He still remembers the day the IRC representative in Manhattan sent him out on Fifth Avenue with a blank check to buy the best hearing aid he could...
...Japan, that is. The Japanese had been assigned the most modest goal: cut emissions 6% below 1990 levels by the year 2012, compared with 7% for the U.S. and 8% for the 15 nations of the European Union (E.U.). But the Japanese wouldn't budge. Five percent was their limit. So the U.S. delegation called Washington to report the impasse, and at 2 a.m. an exhausted Gore, still jet-lagged from his flight from Kyoto, got on the phone with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. Gore praised Hashimoto for Japan's leadership in playing host to the conference and then...
...massive ice-hockey stadium, known as Big Hat, holds a relatively modest 10,000 spectators. That will make hockey a prized ticket when the various dream teams (see below) begin playing...
Those who would defend the Taxman case in theory but who sought a settlement for political purposes can claim but a modest victory. By burying Taxman, affirmative action supporters only succeeded in postponing their day of reckoning before the high court. Despite their deep pockets, civil rights groups will eventually have to engage their opponents in debate instead of paying them off with a handsome settlement...
...greener. Al Gore's instruction to his negotiators to show "greater flexibility" does seem to be reaping rewards: While the U.S. delegation once wouldn't go a single percentage point below 1990 carbon dioxide levels, they're now calling reports of 2 percent below "an understatement." So a "modest achievement," in Estrada's words, does seem close ? and Senate ratification is a battle Gore et al can fight another...