Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...build a sharply scaled-back outlet near the downtown area of St. Johnsbury (pop. 8,000) as the price of admission to Vermont. Not that it will be a mere boutique. At 75,000 sq. ft., the store will dominate the town's landscape, yet it will still be modest by comparison with the discount palaces of 120,000 sq. ft. that Wal- Mart has built in other states. The concession could accelerate Wal-Mart's expansion in New England at a time when the company is beginning to run out of other U.S. locations and is moving abroad -- from...
...Marxist -- approach that has been popular in Europe over the past two decades. Reacting especially to Patrice Chereau's influential 1976 production, set in the Industrial Revolution, the team rejected polemics in favor of a more classical approach. But they failed to come up with an alternative vision. The modest strength of this Ring is that it leaves the audience with scope to listen and think; the weakness is that the stage is empty of ideas or inspiration...
...Britton, 69, was a man of modest means. When he replaced the murdered Dr. David Gunn as a circuit-riding doctor for several abortion clinics in northern Florida, he realized he needed a vest. But instead of buying, he wore one constructed of manufacturer's scraps. Sometimes he worried that it was too short. "If they get me in the liver, that's pretty tough to patch," he told a reporter last February. Apparently he assumed that his assailant, aiming from a prudent distance in hopes of a clean getaway, would go for the largest target, the torso...
...Personally he is rather quiet, modest andunassuming," Black wrote. "He has shown realability to get on with other boys, as is seen fromthe fact that he is editor-in-chief of the schoolpaper, played foot-ball, was in the school-playand is rowing on the school-crew...
...Aldrin clomped across our TV screens, barely eroded by the rain of cosmic rays and the tick-tick-tick of tiny meteorites. The spacecraft debris in Mylar wrapping, the golf balls and that aluminum American flag remain for all the % universe to see. Who would have thought that those modest monuments would go unvisited for decades -- that the age of exploration would come to a halt on that lonely spot...