Word: modestly
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Just a short stroll from Nelson Mandela's modest country house in the Transkei is the even more humble village where he was born. The round thatched huts of Qunu have no running water or electricity, and shy herdboys wielding sticks tend the skinny cattle the same way young Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela did almost 70 years ago. Walking across the green hills above the village one morning not long ago, Mandela recalled a lesson he learned as a boy. "When you want to get a herd to move in a certain direction," he said, "you stand at the back with...
Trevor Manuel, the A.N.C.'s economic chief, asks the key question, "How much is all this going to cost?" White businessmen are likely to add, "And do you propose to pay for it by soaking the rich with big tax increases?" Manuel replies that the development program is relatively modest and can be financed at projected levels with a portion of the present government's budget. Further, he argues, some of it can be paid for by cracking down on corruption, cutting defense spending and collecting taxes more efficiently. "The kind of South Africa we can build," he says with...
...months James Ostrowski, left, had a modest enough dream -- the gubernatorial nomination of New York's Libertarian Party. But last month something came between the Buffalo lawyer and his visions of matching wits with (or being ignored by) Mario Cuomo: a 900-lb., microphone-wielding gorilla named Howard Stern, who announced he was going after the party's nod. "I think I have a chance to win," said Ostrowski on the eve of the convention, held at the semicapacious Italian-American Community Center in Albany. "I feel Stern is using the party for his own purposes. I don't think...
...think we will see a modest increase in the school year, probably to 190 or 195 days by the end of the century," Draisen said...
...Conqueror' won over "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." So it was refreshing to watch this year's Oscar go to the Spanish entry, Fernando Trueba's "Belle Epoque." Trueba's film isn't necessarily a cinematic masterpiece, something like "The Piano." But given Trueba's more modest goal of entertainment, the film succeeds quite well...