Word: modestly
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That's why previous efforts to merge TV and telephone interests have been relatively modest. Earlier this year, Southwestern Bell acquired two cable systems in the metro Washington area -- far outside its operating region. Similarly, Pacific Telesis took an option to buy a cable system in Chicago, although it will need special permission to send cable programming to the system by satellite. Cox Enterprises and Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), the world's largest cable-TV operator, joined forces last year to buy Teleport, a company that provides a telephone service not covered by the Cable Act: private branch exchanges...
...reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, found that people who swallowed large doses of the vitamin in pill form -- at least 10 times the daily allotment recommended by the U.S. government -- had a nearly 40% lower risk of heart disease than those who consumed more modest doses. That two studies, involving a total of more than 120,000 people, came to the same conclusion was especially striking, says Dr. Meir Stampfer, who directed one of the studies at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "Sometimes, things pop up by chance, but to see it twice...
Dwight Eisenhower was right that April day in l958. Lyndon Johnson turned out to be wrong (or uncharacteristically modest), but he probably was so pleased with his position as majority leader of the Senate that for the moment he believed what he said...
When asked about his homosexuality, W.H. Auden replied that he was a poet first and a "queen" second. It was a modest response in a less touchy time. Auden was, in fact, a great poet, but for all the public knew or cared, he was just an ordinary homosexual living and working in a world that, by tacit agreement, did not pry into people's sex lives. Even when the media came out of the closet -- pencils erect and cameras hot -- to chase stories about the New Libido, homosexuality was still a taboo subject...
...were trying to be modest, we were trying to be nice, to be un-French for a change." -- SENIOR FRENCH OFFICIAL EXPLAINING HOW AMERICAN DIPLOMATS MISCONSTRUED FRENCH SIGNALS INDICATING WILLINGNESS TO SUPPORT LIFTING THE ARMS EMBARGO IN BOSNIA