Word: modestly
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...scheduled to receive power soon from what is called a solar-thermal system. It will use a series of parabolic dishes to focus the sun's rays and superheat steam, which in turn will drive turbine generators. The designer, Stephen Kaneff of the Australian National University, calculates that these modest-size systems can produce power for as little as 4 cents per KW-H, cheaper than the polluting gas and diesel generators Tennant Creek now relies on. In California's Mojave Desert, Pacific Gas and Electric uses a solar-thermal technology that employs mirrors to focus sunlight and heat liquids...
Sander, who lives in a Hamburg mansion filled with minimalist art, describes her design philosophy as "less and luxe." She favors spare lines and expensive fabrics; she eschews loud colors and elaborate prints; she loathes accessories. She grew up in a modest Hamburg suburb and has said her taste developed in reaction to the kitsch and consumerism that dominated postwar Germany. "Ever since I was young, I would look at a woman and think she could look much classier, much more powerful, sophisticated and elegant," she says. "That's what always counted for me, not that obviousness that...
...reporter in Bogota, Tom Quinn, received a call from a go-between: "The Cali guys have an announcement to make. Do you want to talk to them?" A week later, after an introductory phone chat and a roundabout journey to the rendezvous, Quinn found himself dining in a modest apartment in downtown Cali, a tidy industrial city in the Cauca Valley currently under occupation by 4,000 Colombian antidrug commandos and a CIA anti-crime task force. His genial host was the chief quarry of all those G-men: Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, supposedly one of the world's leading cocaine...
...Penny," as Hardaway is oh so inappropriately known, seems downright modest compared with Glenn Robinson, the top pick in this summer's N.B.A. draft. Robinson's agent is seeking a 13-year deal with the Milwaukee Bucks that would pay his client $100 million. Chutzpah? This is the same agent who arranged a party after the N.B.A. draft, where for a $10 fee, friends and admirers could come and celebrate Robinson's impending wealth. That's chutzpah...
...Heye Museum videotape suggests, notwithstanding this spate of good publicity (and some modest but real political and financial gains), Native Americans are struggling with the wages of survival. Once the only people on the North American continent, they have persevered as an ethnic minority only to face the classic minority dilemma of whether to assimilate or to affirm a separate identity -- and, if they choose the latter, they further face a raft of federal definitions that can profoundly affect their economic welfare. The result is painful tensions between individuals and between tribes. Says an Indian activist: Just the question...