Word: modestly
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Unfortunately, standard low-fat diets have only a modest effect on most people's blood-cholesterol levels, and, until recently, drugs were not much better. That changed in 1987, when the first of a new class of compounds -- called statins -- was approved for use in the U.S. Statins reduce cholesterol by blocking production of a key enzyme needed to manufacture lipoproteins. Scientists predicted that if a drug like simvastatin were put to a long-term test, it would reduce death rates by one-third...
...blacks to come back. Thirty years later, racial satire has taken a bleaker turn. In Space Traders -- one of three episodes of Cosmic Slop, an HBO anthology series from Reginald and Warrington Hudlin (who wrote and directed the film House Party) -- aliens arrive on earth with a modest proposal for the U.S. government: We'll give you unlimited energy and enough gold to pay off the national debt; all you have to do is give us your blacks. This time the white folks think it's a pretty good deal...
...White House, no one was ready to hear that message. Last Tuesday afternoon, chief of staff Leon Panetta gathered his downcast political team to plot how to put spin control on various election outcomes: a modest loss, a big loss and what he called "a blowout scenario." At one point, aide George Stephanopoulos pushed himself back from the mahogany table in Panetta's office and left. When he returned -- stone-faced, exit-poll results in hand -- he told the group, "We're in deep trouble...
...once," says former Republican National Committee chairman Rich Bond, who is much in demand as a strategist by almost all the wannabes, "something positive may come from the Hill. If it does, Bob Dole will be credited for much of it." While many of the potential candidates can raise modest amounts of money, Dole is one of the few who can garner the $20 million necessary to take him through the early primaries without mortgaging his house. His failures in 1980 and 1988 may actually help. Ronald Reagan and George Bush showed that Republican voters like to reward candidates...
...although Gingrich probably isn't as fit and trim as Moses, to hear him talk you'd think he was the Dictaphone of the Almighty himself. The white-haired man with a Southern accent and modest roots has swung into power as the first Republican Speaker of the House in forty years...