Word: modestic
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...where he's designing a new home for the Tokyo Club and creating a new gallery at the Kyoto National Museum. "After I won the [MOMA] competition, I got lots of offers," he says with a smile, "but I had to say I am sorry." And with that, the modest master goes back to work...
...also discovered the power of sports marketing, and plastered the Parmalat name on events from World Cup skiing to Formula One racing. A pious Catholic, Tanzi was a generous benefactor who sponsored the restoration of Parma's 11th century basilica and funded its professional soccer team. And he seemed modest about his achievements. He didn't smoke, drank little and drove his own Lexus. Behind his company's facade of success, however, a hole kept growing. Parmalat's finances were in poor shape by the late 1980s as a result of a disastrous foray into...
...Harvard student who nearly died in an ambulance stuck in the mud, is the fundamental reason why the tailgates are tougher this year. Stories about over-drinking at the 2002 tailgate reached the BPD, which had previously ignored the small spit of their jurisdiction that hosted our modest celebration, and swiftly turned the tailgates into a Boston—not Cambridge—issue...
Still, she’s modest about her achievements. When asked about her status as D.C.’s up-and-comer, the 23-year-old laughs and temporarily loses her eloquence—sounding, for once, like a girl just out of college...
...Alvin is an amazing musician and extremely modest, so we tempted him to play,” Koenig said...