Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When discussing his undergraduate years, the former Dunster House resident is reserved and modest. Despite the fact that most faculty members were aware of his awe-some talent (his performance in Coriolanus is considered "legendary"), Jones insists that he was just another student doing his own thing he best he could. When asked if he and his roommate seemed destined for grandeur, ones replied, "We always seemed destined for in hourly exam...
...Such a modest and self-effacing style has not always been characteristic of a town that is better known for the flash and brassiness of its bosses, with cuff links the size of silver dollars and stogies the length of private yachts. Although few people outside the industry know their names, the three men who have ascended to power at GM, Ford and Chrysler within the past year have been working hard to accomplish what many said Detroit could never do: reinvent itself and profitably build cars that can stand bumper to bumper with the best the Europeans and Japanese...
Instead of closeting himself in his corner 14th-floor suite in Detroit headquarters, Smith spends most of his 12- and 14-hour days in his modest office at GM's technical center in Warren, 15 miles away. His goal is to convert the research center into the core of GM's new-product operations by bringing together such specialists as chassis, brake and electrical engineers to form platform teams for launches...
...same time, Spielberg says, "this movie didn't need my strengths as a storyteller because the story's already been told." Here he is being too modest. It was surely the screen storyteller in him who responded to the compelling narrative strength of Thomas Keneally's novelized life of a German- Czech named Oskar Schindler, who came to Poland to make money out of its - occupation by the Nazis and stayed to preserve 1,100 Jews -- workers in the enamelware factory he established -- from the death camps...
...must remain a paradox largely incomprehensible to these liberals that much of the strongest conservative support comes not from the very wealthy but from the working classes. The vast majority of conservatives here at Harvard are from extremely modest, working-class backgrounds. My own academically-employed family is the exception rather than the rule. But true conservatives recognize that there are values whose conservation is more important than the conservation of wealth and principles the universal extension of which is more important than equality of income...