Word: modestly
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Last week King Fahd finally introduced modest but significant political reforms. He extended the concept of shura (consultation) beyond the informal tradition of hearing petitions from private citizens. In an 83-article decree, he announced plans to establish a 60-member consultative council, and he also codified governmental protections of personal freedoms for 7 million subjects and 5 million foreign residents. Since the edict also affirmed the absolute authority of the monarch, it neither transforms Saudi Arabia into a model democracy nor positions Fahd as a regional pioneer. The Emir of Kuwait, for instance, has made a bolder pledge...
...dreaming of success can mean living a nightmare. She would, above all things, like to work hard, go to college and become a doctor. But to many other black 14-year-old girls in her corner of Oakland, these ideas are anathema. The telephone rings in her family's modest apartment, and the anonymous voice murmurs daggers. "We're gonna kill you," the caller says. Za'kettha knows the threat comes from a gang of black girls, one that specializes not in drugs or street fights but in terrorizing bright black students. "They think that just because you're smart...
...That's what Maura was. I think she's probably the most respected athlete ever to go through Winnacunnet High School because she accomplished so much and was very modest about everything...
Rudenstine says progress so far has been"modest" and that the University will construct anew five-year affirmative action plan...
They are portrayed as men so eager to consummate the transaction that they were careless about protecting what they called "the Time culture" and the company's traditional separation of "church" (the editorial content) and "state" (the business side). They did not cast even a modest glance into shadowy recesses of Ross's past, says Clurman; among the several outside members of the Time Inc. board of directors, including some high-powered business and industrial leaders, only one bothered to meet the man before the deal was made...