Word: modestly
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...Core classes, excluding Ec 10, is about 160 students. Assuming that the average section has 20 students, that makes eight sections per Core course. Since students must fulfill eight Core areas, they could expect to have at least one section taught by a professor during their Harvard career. A modest figure indeed...
...effects of low-level lead poisoning in children are not immediately obvious, but they can have a devastating, permanent impact. Exhaustive tests conducted by Dr. Needleman on 2,300 suburban Boston schoolchildren confirmed that even modest lead exposure lowers IQs, impairs memory and reaction time and affects the ability to concentrate. "This is an information society," says Karen Florini, a Washington attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund. "When your educational and social skills are hurt early on, you aren't likely to become a productive member of society." John Rosen, a professor of pediatrics at the Montefiore Medical Center...
...fall back on the front while trying to disrupt Soviet supply lines from the rear. A seminal 1979 study by Joseph Braddock, a military consultant, showed that the U.S. could predict the location of Soviet armor units as they moved up toward the front and that even modest success in slowing the flow of Soviet reinforcements could produce significant effects on the battlefield, tipping the balance just enough to give NATO forces temporary tactical superiority...
Efforts to combat teen problem gambling are still fairly modest. Few states offer educational programs that warn young people about the addictive nature of gambling; treatment programs designed for youths are virtually nonexistent. In Minnesota, where a study found that more than 6% of all youths between 15 and 18 are problem gamblers, $200,000 of the expected income from the state's new lottery will go toward a youth-education campaign. That may prove to be small solace. Betty George, who heads the Minnesota Council on Compulsive Gambling, warns that the lottery and other anticipated legalized gambling activities...
...lead in the first two minutes of play. Yale hung tough, however, and actually grabbed a 14-13 lead at the 13-minute mark of the first half. Both teams exchanged leads for the remainder of the half, and Harvard entered the locker room at intermission with a modest 36-30 advantage...