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...only games I can remember are our modest victory in 1915 (Harvard 41, Yale 0) and our stunning win in 1968 (Harvard 29, Yale 29)," Knowles said. "I have absolute confidence that the Harvard team will win, whatever the score...
Dooley goes so far as to predict that someday she'll make the U.S. national team. But Mleczko's response is typically modest--she said she's "never really considered it an actual possibility...
...ability to avoid attention comes from its success in smoothing over the sharp edges of its image. On the economic front, China has permitted capitalism to grow beyond long-standing black markets, though these changes have mostly in urban areas. Its "Iron Curtain" is punctured by a continuous if modest flow of emigrants to the United States and Canada. Students also leave China to study in the West; those that return often become important in modernization efforts...
...thing is that an agreement that has aroused so much passion, in committee rooms if not on the public stage, is likely to have only rather modest economic effects. It will not have much impact on Canada at all; Canada already has a free-trade agreement with the U.S., and its commerce with Mexico is minimal...
...remains modest about his talent, preferring instead to focus on the team he now captains...