Word: modestly
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While more modest meteor showers, usually consisting of no more than a scattering of shooting stars, take place as often as 15 to 20 times each year over various parts of the globe, dramatic displays like the 1966 Leonids occur rarely, only a few times each century. But the next great meteor storm of the 20th century could occur this week -- if astronomers' hunches are right. Conditions seem ideal, they say, for the annual Perseid meteor shower to develop into a vivid display that should be visible in many parts of the northern hemisphere on the night...
...conference committee had concluded negotiations. In an Oval Office interview with TIME Friday afternoon, the President pronounced himself "very pleased with the basic outlines" of the plan. "This is a big first step," he said, "but only a first step. Most Americans will see this as a very modest price to pay for getting the deficit under control and keeping interest rates down...
...minimum target heart rate during exercise has been dropping for nearly 20 years. In 1975 the college said the pulse rate during exercise should be 80% of the heart's maximum capacity; in 1980 that goal fell to 70%, then 60% in 1986. Last year it was a modest 50%. Says Linda Webb, a Weight Watchers spokeswoman: "The problem in the 1980s was that exercise was ! seen as a chore, beyond the norm. Now we recognize that all we have to do is normal things like walking, but just do it a little faster. It's the difference between...
There were, however, a couple of things in the book that were unworthy of thought, even by the modest standards of airplane reads. One of these was Crichton's habit of stopping every 20 pages or so to give a little lecture on the evil genius of Japanese corporate culture. The other was a mystery about an American girl found dead on the boardroom table at a Japanese conglomerate's American headquarters. This plot was more intricate than it had to be because the author was determined to show that there was nothing in American life that the wily Asiatics...
...reporters and photographers trailing the Clintons, so the notion of walking the beach or sunbathing or doing laps in the pool seemed to have made her somewhat skittish. Mrs. Clinton's husband was not at all reserved about being photographed in his trunks, but she was more modest...