Word: modestic
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...very factor that made sanctions a modest success against South Africa, though, may make that success unrepeatable. Sanctions have been instituted 115 times since World War I, but usually without much effect. Gary Hufbauer, professor of international finance at Georgetown University, calculates that only 30% of the restrictions imposed during the past decade have had even a marginal effect in changing a target nation's policies...
Whole lot of heavy thinking going on out there. Some pretty heavy journalistic breathing too. Hard to believe that the occasion for this heated exercise in moral philosophy and sociological big-think is a modest and, at its most basic level, very enjoyable little movie called Thelma & Louise, which is so far a moderate commercial success. It has earned about $20 million in its first 3 1/2 weeks of release -- less than a muscular big-boy movie like Robin Hood or Terminator 2: Judgment Day could expect to make on its first weekend...
...Brookner turns her modest narrator into a figure of considerable strength and poignancy. Fay thinks of her old performances: "Only Make-Believe, runs the song. And You Are My Heart's Desire. And I'll Be Loving You Always. But though the words are affirmative the melodies are in a minor key, and sadder than they know." Life has not passed her by. It has simply not given her enough time to learn how to live...
...until the 1960s that slavery was abolished and women were allowed to attend schools. A Consultative Council is a concession to the concept of political dialogue, if not to the principle of power sharing. Fahd, who governs by family consensus, should not shy away from a modest extension of the political franchise, particularly if it represents no dilution of his own power. He might even find it easier to control the religious extremists who pose such a threat, in the moderates' view, to the stability of the kingdom. Despite their endorsement of a Consultative Council, says a Western diplomat...
Mistake two: the ideal panel for literary prizes is a group of harmless but well-read drudges who are happy with modest honorariums and the free coffee and doughnuts served at meetings. The Turner people made the blunder of assuming that prestigious judges would confer glitter on the new awards. They assembled, at $10,000 a pop, a blue-ribbon panel including not only Styron, Matthiessen and Bradbury but Nadine Gordimer and Carlos Fuentes as well...