Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What we have said before when asked about this, especially in the long term, is that it would have a very modest effect," Fitzsimmons said...
...ineffective yo-yo dieting. But outside the White House, a group of marchers criticized Koop for sending a message that overweight people could shape up easily. For his part, Koop says obesity-related conditions are the second leading cause of death in the U.S., after smoking, and that even modest weight loss can help obese people significantly improve their health...
Fatherland was originally intended to be a big-budget Hollywood film. Instead it has been turned into a relatively modest HBO movie (which debuted last weekend). That fate, however, is hardly to be lamented. The TV-size budget, for one thing, has forced director Christopher Menaul (Prime Suspect) to be resourceful. Instead of a lavish (and possibly campy) physical re- creation of the new Greater Germany, he suggests it in small, swift strokes. Tour buses carrying Western reporters on their first visit since the war roll past billboards touting one-world harmony and vacations in "Paris, Germania." (There's also...
...predict whether any of these local leaders will eventually ascend to the national stage or whether that kind of leadership -- on the grand scale ! -- has become impossible. One can only cite the hopeful example of Regina Benjamin, a rural physician whose rather modest original goal was to help solve the local doctor shortage in poverty-stricken Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Practicing there for a while convinced her of the need to know something about business. While earning her M.B.A. at Tulane University, she unearthed an obscure federal rule that would provide government money to qualified rural health clinics. Suddenly...
...farmers; his first language is Welsh. Not for nothing is Wales called "the land of song." There, singing is not a self-conscious act but a community expression. Eisteddfods, or local song contests, flourish even in hamlets. Young Bryn won a long string of them and used the modest prize money to buy soccer shoes...