Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daddy") Amin fled Uganda in 1979 with his wife and 23 children for sanctuary in Saudi Arabia. Occasionally he dons traditional Arab garb and joins other Ugandan exiles for coffee in a downtown Jeddah hotel. A devout Muslim, Amin lives quietly in a modest villa outside the city, tending a vegetable patch and feeding his goats and chickens...
...second movement highlighted the sweeter part of Kremer's musicianship. His tones were mellifluous and limpid, and his chords and changes were exceptionally clear. Here, the BSO's modest and controlled playing led to an extremely touching performance...
...getting any signals at all," he said, "it is in the direction of folding up the tent" for this year. In Congress, he observed, "people who want to do nothing and people who want to do too much are peeling off," leaving only a minority interested in modest steps and compromise. One of those splitting off on the left was Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington State who favors a "single payer" health system in which the government pays all medical bills from tax revenue. He declared last week that he could not support any incremental reforms, observing that...
This structure is a modest variation on the basic model under which the College now operates. There would continue to be an experienced educational administrator serving as Dean of Harvard College, and a senior faculty member serving as Dean for Undergraduate Education...
...Express "cardmembers" began weighing the costs of privilege against the benefits of more plebeian credit cards. While the AmEx elite shelled out annual fees, Discover clients were issued free cards. Amex users had to pay their bills in full each month; savvy bank-card customers enjoyed revolving credit at modest interest rates. AmEx clients could brandish their cards in 3.7 million upscale establishments worldwide; Visa cards opened 11 million doors, MasterCard 12.3 million. Feeling decidedly underprivileged, 2 million AmEx users cut up their cards between 1991 and 1993 and went in search of better bargains...