Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Court decision allowing him to claim victory if he gets only a simple majority in the national vote of confidence. Not taking chances, Yeltsin's team launched a final, Western-style media blitz, with pop stars rocking for reform in a Kremlin concert and a televised look at his modest apartment...
Will anything work? The first Administration initiative -- a package of modest diplomatic measures announced on Feb. 10 -- is universally seen as a bust. Not only have negotiations on Bosnia failed but Serbian aggression has become even more brutal and more successful...
...flaky, perhaps, as Libby Gelman-Waxner, the yenta film critic whose column appears in Premiere magazine. Rudnick denies he is Libby: "She is a genius. I wouldn't dream of taking credit for work of that caliber." He is too modest; the Rudnick voice can be heard in every purring line. Example: "Howards End transported me, the way movies and catalogs are supposed to; I wanted to call up and order Emma's life, Helena's skin and all the jewelry...
...brightest students ever at Harvard... ever," said Dan Lieberman, a former Dunster House tutor. "What's more important is that she was a warm, generous, down-to-earth, modest, courageous person...
Professors that teach courses will be paid a "modest honorarium," according to the guidelines governing the academic activities of retired professors...