Word: modeste
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...team, we had a modest season," he said. "But we did have a young team, and that is to be expected. Hopefully the team can build on this for next year...
...deters the second. Nobody in the world is anxious to fight the U.S. if they judge that we are serious." McPeak acknowledges that the Clinton Administration's shaky relations with the military make it unlikely that this Administration would push to replace the two-war strategy with a more modest pledge, although the Pentagon's civilian leaders quietly suggested it two years ago. "They got their shins kicked," says McPeak. "It has to be a hard-line guy who says, 'This is silly...
...offer a modest proposal: Let Bill Gates rule the digital world...
...early March, 10 Fargo churches, along with the Salvation Army, created a Communal Needs fund to help locals who touch bottom. The money will be doled out to individuals who need emergency help with rent, transportation or food. There is not much to go around: donations now total a modest...
...Cuban cigars for stereo equipment. Using these indiscretions as leverage, the FBI persuaded him to begin spying for the U.S. He identified for the FBI the name of every KGB agent in the Soviet embassy in Washington. At each of its meetings with Motorin, the FBI gave him a modest cash payment, at first $100, later $200. After each meeting, the bureau also put aside $500 in an escrow account, to be held for Motorin against the day that he might defect...