Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compared with more than $1,000 on a political airlift. Nor were the local news spots edited to 90 seconds a day -- more like 90 minutes. Engelberg's original idea was to steal the settings for Bush's family-values pitch before the President could arrive. The buses fit modest front-yard dimensions. The people flowed easily and eagerly out of the grass roots...
Teenagers (and most other people for that matter) are likely to encounter Gas Food Lodging only by chance, given its modest release pattern and the fact that it is going forth unpopulated with major stars, unequipped with big-time advertising and utterly devoid of glamour. But Allison Anders' film is like its main characters -- spunky, smart, tougher than they look -- and one wants to believe that the film, like them, will somehow make its way in an uncaring world...
...Well, from the tactical point of view, having to control and occupy and dominate all the features around Sarajevo and the city itself. Cities are famous for gobbling up soldiers. I haven't done the detailed analysis, but a figure of 75,000 would probably be modest, if there is resistance. And the resistance has to be handled 24 hours a day by people on the ground. Air power can assist, but it can't stop people from reoccupying positions...
...Charles Barkley keep his elbows to himself? The answers are: no, no and most definitely not. "Charles is Charles," says Michael Jordan. "He's not crazy. He just likes to push his behavior to the edge." Jordan and his teammates have been trying to push it back, with only modest success. When Barkley threw an elbow at Angola's spindly David Dias in the U.S. team's first outing, he was quickly yanked offstage by director-coach Chuck Daly...
Library assistant Geoff Carens says he would have supported stronger union demands, but library assistant James Adler says he thinks this year's modest demands are fair. Carens says he advocates stronger tactics, "group action" in the form of walkouts or sickouts, while library assistant Laura Ruth Jarrett is skeptical of such moves: "That feels like playing their childish game...