Word: modestly
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...imperial overstretch. The genesis of the new book, as Kennedy explains, came during a 1988 conference when he was criticized for not addressing "those forces for global change, such as population growth, the ; impact of technology, environmental damage and migration, which were transnational in nature." Perhaps a more modest scholar than Kennedy might have responded that he was, for all his erudition, primarily a historian and not an agronomist, a climatologist or a demographer...
Ironically, most seniors will write Harvard a check from money their parents gave them. Students who depend on their own resources are far less likely to have the extra cash on hand. These seniors may well decide to contribute a modest (but hard-earned) sum. Habit-forming purpose aside, it is slightly incongruous to write a twenty dollar check to an institution that has given you thousands in financial aid. The "success" of the Class Gift drive may depend on everyone's participation, but its effective influence on Harvard's finances will be determined by how many seniors have rich...
Ever since their modest beginnings, though, many of Harvard's bands have had a little taste of stardom--and they have the groupies to prove...
...detect the threatening object and dispatch a warhead-tipped rocket to intercept it and explode, nudging it into a new orbit that would carry it safely past Earth. For a small asteroid detected years and many orbits before its destined collision, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to it at its perihelion, or closest point to the sun, using conventional explosives," explains Gregory Canavan, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during each orbit, ensuring that the asteroid misses Earth by a wide margin...
...allied air strike was intended to send Saddam a political admonition to reform his behavior, rather than deliver a crippling military blow. The modest raid by 110 U.S., British and French warplanes on four missile sites and four command posts in southern Iraq was, as one U.S. official noted, "a spanking, not a beating" -- and an inefficient one at that. The attack destroyed only one of the missile batteries the U.S. claimed were threatening allied aircraft in the skies over Iraq, although officials insisted that all but one of the eight targets were at least temporarily put out of action...