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...that his desire for public service remained strong. But "there is still no cure for the common birthday." Glenn said, smiling. "Although my health remains excellent . . . another term in the Senate would take me at the end of that term to the age of 83." It was a typically modest exit for a man elected in 1972 as the symbol of a glorious time of progress, and whose fourth Senate term will end in 1998. Glenn marveled at technology's advances from his father's time to his own, and urged the students present to take up the mantle...
...been pointed out that the total number of A. beta deposits show only a modest correlation with degree of dementia," Selkoe writes in a recent Science Magazine article. "But this is precisely what one would expect from an initiating factor...
...company has maintained its traditionally modest prices. A small bag of candy hearts sold for 88 cents in the Square yesterday, and a quirky, plastic candy cane of hearts could be snagged for ten cents more...
...said were the couple's unusual financial arrangements. One said that Mrs. Jackson will receive $1.24 million for bearing her husband a child and will rake in $2.4 million for Jackson to receive custody if the couple ever divorce, while a London paper put the payout at a relatively modest $528,000 for Jackson Junior's birth and said that the couple had used artificial insemination -- two charges that Jackson heatedly denied. The Jacksons left the hospital, notable also as the birthplace of Madonna's daughter, Lourdes, at about 8 a.m. Thursday morning, their destination unknown...
...million. You're about to launch a snazzy TV ad campaign built around a radical change in pricing policy: from stiff, pay-by-the-hour bills to unlimited all-you-can-eat access to the Internet for $19.95 a month. Yet you have added only a modest number of modems to the 200,000 you already need to service your teeming masses. On Dec. 1, you flick the switch...