Word: modestic
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...German, French and Dutch institutions have already come unstuck through exposure to the subprime debts. Northern Rock's problem: Its modest savings business compared to its mortgage lending arm means it leans on wholesale credit markets for a larger share of its funding than its rivals. With that well drying up, it "hits them disproportionately," says Alex Potter, an analyst at Collins Stewart in London...
...post-film Q&A, he struck a modest note about watching the movie with them: "When you look like me it's not easy to see yourself blown up to 40 ft." He said he might not repeat the experiment next year, citing six attempted physical attacks on him during the Slacker Tour. He declared himself "not overly thrilled" about the current Democratic Presidential candidates and floated the notion of a Gore-Obama ticket. He reminded the crowd of the Democrats' knack for clutching defeat from the jaws of victory, adding, "We should be prepared to say the words 'President...
...heady stuff for a baker's son from the small Italian city of Modena, who had briefly taught elementary school and sold insurance while pursuing his vocal studies. As late as the 1970s Pavarotti liked to say he was still "a country boy," and he played up his modest roots by spending his summers on home turf, swimming, riding horses and expertly whipping up pasta feasts. But his family home was now a 17th century mansion on 12 acres, and there was no disguising his status as an immensely wealthy international superstar. Eventually his prolonged globetrotting absences took a toll...
...would be easy to predict the coming implosion of Nicolas Sarkozy's three-month-old hyperprésidence. The French, after all, are notoriously averse to change and have a proven record of stopping reforms in their tracks - just ask Jacques Chirac, who in 1995 saw his modest plans for reforming the welfare state rejected by hundreds of thousands of angry protesters; or Dominique de Villepin, whose even more modest efforts to tweak the French youth labor market some 10 years later were similarly rejected. Even when the French do not bring down governments with their feet, they bring them...
...unlikely, of course, that Yau would have conceived of his corpus in such solemn terms. Indeed, he once said that his interest in photography stemmed from the prize money that could be won in local competitions. A modest and laconic man, he played merely supporting roles for most of his career. As a stills photographer for movie companies in the 1960s, he was one of thousands of anonymous technicians in the service of a burgeoning entertainment industry. As the publisher and editor of Photo Tech magazine in the 1970s, and of Photo Art magazine from 1980, his days were spent...