Word: modestly
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...Dada classic Four Saints hangs onto the fringe of the repertoire by virtue of its pigeons-on-the-grass-alas text by Stein and Thomson's proto- minimalist, oompah-pah score. Even so modest a renown is likely to elude Lord Byron, just given a handsome first recording by conductor James Bolle leading the Monadnock Festival Orchestra and a cast of mostly unknowns...
...commitments and severe economic troubles of their own. But of all areas of the world, the Middle East is the one where aid could make the biggest difference. Populations are small: 5 million Israelis; 1.8 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Economies are on a similarly modest scale. Sums that would vanish without effect in Russia could make an enormous difference here. What matters most is not whether foreign economic aid to the Middle East produces the biggest bang for the buck, but whether it brings the most peace for the penny...
...modest talk fool you. Chua-Eoan is no shrinking violet. A native of the Philippines, he started working at TIME 10 years ago, answering phones and taking lunch orders as the Saturday secretary for the Nation section. Last week, for the first time, he was acting editor of the Nation section and someone else took his calls. In between, he has written stories on everything from pets to Raisa Gorbachev, from the history of World War II to the Tiananmen Square massacre. Two years ago, our sister publication People magazine spirited him and his menagerie away. But life at TIME...
...nightmare of relentless inflation and widespread shortages. Dapo, a 33-year-old journalist, lost his job several months ago and cannot find a new one. The fees at his four-year-old son's religious school have risen from $23 to $114. The rent on the family's modest flat in Lagos has doubled to $36.50 a month. A bag of cassava flour that sold for $13.60 when the couple married in 1988 now goes for $50 or more. "Five years ago, I thought that by now we would have a fine home and two cars," says Dapo...
Sudan's presence on the terrorist list makes little difference to Khartoum. Trade with the U.S. is now banned, but it was always modest. The designation formally denies Sudan all U.S. foreign assistance, except for about $71 million in humanitarian relief for southern Sudan's homeless and hungry people. In reality, economic and military aid has already been suspended. "The real thrust of this decision," says the State Department's McCurry, "will be to isolate Sudan from the community of civilized nations." That may only push Khartoum deeper into Tehran's embrace...