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While “Crime Time” may seem more modest than other CCTV programming, Pasquarello says that even his show has its more absurd moments...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lights, Camera, Crime | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...though Bernakevitch remained modest throughout the campaign, his performance could not help but attract attention...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Centering Force | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...what they loved, persuading the Friends cast to come back for one more year and adding eight extra minutes to some episodes in a tactic he dubbed supersizing. But many of the debuts on his watch, from Emeril to Coupling, were duds, though Las Vegas has been a modest success. Last year's hiring of savvy programmer Kevin Reilly from FX (Nip/Tuck, The Shield) to run NBC Entertainment day to day could help make up for that weakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NBC's New Reality | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...privately-held LNM Holdings and the publicly-traded Ispat International - with the U.S.-based International Steel Group (ISG). The deal, which must still gain regulatory approval, would create the world's biggest steel company, Mittal Steel, to be based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and help Mittal pursue his modest goal of making Mittal as synonymous with steel as Ford is with the motor car. The new company could produce up to 10% of the world's steel and, as Mittal predicts, will "dramatically change the landscape of the global steel industry. [It] provides Mittal Steel with a more significant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steel's New Spring | 10/31/2004 | See Source »

...battery that would last for more than a few minutes. He was quite successful: at a demonstration for company executives, one model car barely moved while another, powered with his now-ubiquitous alkaline battery, raced round and round the company cafeteria. Urry, according to his son Michael, was a modest man who ?took special pride around Christmas, when there was a rush for batteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/31/2004 | See Source »

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