Word: modeste
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...He’s a very modest guy; he is reserved and soft spoken,” she says. “I’ve never heard anyone say anything—even just a tiny bit edged—about...
...Frontier Award at the Institute of Politics yesterday evening. Caroline B. Kennedy ’80 presented awards to Booker and Giovanna Negretti, the co-founder and executive director of ¿Oiste?, which encourages Massachusetts Latinos to enter public service. Booker took to the stage with a modest smile and jokes about Stephen Colbert’s recent lampooning of him, but gradually adopted a more dramatic and impassioned tone reminiscent of former President Kennedy’s “New Frontier” inaugural address, a clip of which began the ceremony. He spoke about his parents?...
...September 2006, Sprague convened with a group of Harvard graduates to form In the Running. Though the organizers initially set modest fundraising expectations, Sprague’s mission provided a compelling cause for donors...
...findings—published in this month’s issue of the journal Nature Geoscience—showed that modest rises in temperature dry out the bogs regardless of precipitation patterns, said Paul R. Moorcroft, an associate professor of biology and co-author of the study...
Retail sales are also softening. Raphael le Masne, executive chairman of Shanghai Tang, says that the high-end fashion retailer began to experience modest declines in sales from early October, especially due to fewer high-spending tourists and travelers in the city. On some days in November, Shanghai Tang's boutiques in the ritzy Central district generated half the sales they had one year ago. "Things are deteriorating by the day," le Masne says...