Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steve Martins--modest though he is off of the ice--has this knack for drawing attention to himself, for good...
...during the next 20 years, beaches will continue to retreat, diminishing the sand barriers that protect $2 trillion worth of insured property along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S. A study by Travelers Corp., based in Hartford, Connecticut, estimates that even a modest 0.9 degreesF increase in average global temperature by the year 2010 could produce a 20-day extension of the hurricane season, a 33% jump in hurricane landfalls in the U.S., an increase in the severity of the storms and a 30% annual rise in U.S. catastrophic losses...
...Guests had no reason to doubt him. His divorce from Nancy, a fellow Central Intelligence Agency employee, had become final only 12 days earlier in New York City. In preceding months, Ames had complained bitterly to colleagues at the CIA that the long, messy divorce had gutted his modest civil service paycheck, leaving him "poor...
...late is d). True enough, the increase engineered by the Fed in February -- a boost in the short-term rate from 3% to only 3.25% -- was still low by historic standards and applied only to the federal funds rate on loans from one bank to another. But even that modest move sent stock and bond markets into a tizzy, largely because the boost was the first after a five-year fall in borrowing costs. Moreover, the almost universal assumption % is that Greenspan, having reversed course, probably will not stop there...
...Even the most inexperienced viewer cannot remain untouched by the absorbing energy and beauty of the production. After its 1990 grand premire, Swan Lake. appeared again in 1992; it has evolved into the "glittering, critically-acclaimed jewel in the crown" of the Boston Ballet's repertoire, to use the modest words of Boston Ballet's own magazine, Sightless. While the production is politically avant-garde, Marks' interpretation remains utterly traditional...