Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carnesale ran over long history of stage,screen and concert performances, as well as hercommitment to political activism, the entertainerpantomimed modest embarrassment, playing to theaudience by sneaking under Carnesale's podium toget a glass or water...
...district was $67,680 last year, compared to $43,014 in New York City and an average salary of about $35,000 across the country. Because of his approximately $7,500 tax bill, he says, he has had to postpone replacing the plumbing in the bathrooms of his "modest, split-level home...
...distrust of authority cuts across almost all aspects of American life, including the spiritual realm. Whereas religious leaders are enjoying a modest comeback in credibility, according to the Yankelovich Monitor, Americans want to keep their own counsel. ``We're finding that people are uncertain about things, but they've got their own moral tool kits,'' says Alan Wolfe, chairman of the sociology department at Boston University. ``So you can say authority has broken down, but you can also say that people have a great opportunity to make up their own understanding of the world. A lot of people are very...
...with Toffler and his wife of 44 years, Heidi, who has collaborated on her husband's books without, until recently, accepting byline credit. Over the recent New Year's holidays, the Congressman and his wife Marianne stayed a week at the Tofflers' Los Angeles home -- their own spirited, though modest version of a Renaissance weekend...
...survived the persecution and chaos of the Cultural Revolution to set the country on the path toward reform cannot manage even ( this modest circumambulation: he can no longer walk or stand unaided. Yet in a way the methodical tally continues, if only in the anxious timekeeping of millions of politicians, businessmen and ordinary Chinese...