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...virtue of the service that I've had the opportunity to give both in the church and outside it," Mitt told the Boston Globe earlier this year, "I've spent time every week with people of very modest means...
Vallier has won modest praise from many security guards and police officers. But his close contact with the person who hired him--Vice President and General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall, who oversees the department but is generally distrusted by officers--has caused some to be cautions...
...modest tuition charged to Extension School students is not an overwhelmingly persuasive explanation for such a minimalist ethos. In any case, both at the College and at the Extension School, the cost of tuition does not reflect the true cost of an undergraduate education...
...this year, Detroit's Big Three expect to sell 37,000 imported cars in Japan, almost double last year's total. That still represents less than 1% of the 4 million cars sold in Japan annually, but Detroit's modest progress belies the traditional view of negotiators in Washington. The Clinton Administration had based its trade policy on the idea that the only way to open up Japan's auto market was to intervene forcefully. Now it is becoming clear that Detroit can make headway on its own, helped by some good economic luck and a little prodding...
Mourners also remembered Rosenfeld yesterday as unusually modest...