Word: modestly
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SCIENTISTS HAVE KNOWN FOR YEARS THAT EVEN modest amounts of lead in children's blood can result in nasty learning problems. What they didn't know was whether the damage was reversible once the lead was removed. Well, it certainly helps, according to a six-month study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers studied 154 children with moderate lead poisoning and found that when blood lead levels were reduced, IQ scores rose an average of three points...
Harvard's affirmative action efforts have failed to meet what some consider already modest goals, according to the University's report on affirmative action. Later this month, President Neil L. Rudenstine will present a long-term plan to improve the recruitment of minorities and women. Meanwhile it appears that, next to comparable institutions, Harvard...
Playwright Barker, one of Britain's premier ideological artists, gives this outspoken woman a subtle, likable enemy in the person of the ruling doge, glitteringly played by Frank Langella. Also arrayed against her are a female critic and, on occasion, her own lover, himself an artist of more modest and domestically inclined talents. While the parallels with contemporary culture wars are obvious -- and reinforced by the use of electronically jazzed-up classical music during scene changes -- the text is short on plot and long on debate, to a degree that makes Shaw look taciturn. In touching on many themes...
...Warner lot in Burbank, the other up the coast in Carmel. His friends there have included a schoolteacher, a former bar owner and an itinerant barber. Film is rarely a topic of conversation. Carmel residents protect his privacy, even those who disagreed with his policies -- such as a modest liberalization of the zoning laws -- when he was mayor...
There are certain species of athletes. There are the talented, histrionic media-animals (the Deion Sanders/Keith Elias breed, given to uncontrollable yapping) and the rara avis. the gifted, modest, controlled class of athlete...