Word: modestly
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...primaries this year than ever before, and polls indicate that just 35% of the electorate--another record low--plans to turn out Nov. 3. But that date still has both parties sweating. Midterm elections can produce big shifts in the congressional balance of power, and in this case, even modest gains by either party could determine the fate of Bill Clinton's presidency. But if you really want to get in on the action (and we know, you've got better things to do), then check out the states. The immediate future of American politics will be decided there this...
...midterm save one since the Civil War, elections in the sixth year of a presidency are especially crippling. Since 1938, sixth-year elections have produced an average loss of 44 seats for the party controlling the White House. Minority leader Richard Gephardt's expectations for the elections are revealingly modest. "We have to hold our own," he says...
...Amartya Sen is a wonderful person. He has always been very kind and helpful towards the students and young faculty," said Andrew P. Metrick, associate professor of economics. "[He] has always been modest and self-effacing...
Tucci got those offers, and faced just that decision, in the wake of Big Night's modest box-office take. "It wasn't just food movies," he says, "though there were some of those, and it wasn't just ethnic stuff. I got comedies, dramas, melodramas, tragedies." But Tucci, finally sprung from the saturnine-villain roles (Billy Bathgate, Murder One) that both fed and trapped him, had his eye on a story he had been mulling for years. The idea became The Impostors, an $8.3 million opus (Big Night cost $4 million) that Tucci describes as "a little Heidegger...
...family lives in the royal compound in Amman in an elegant but relatively modest stone house. Like Hussein, perhaps more so, Hassan avoids ostentation. Both brothers do their own driving. Hassan is an observant Muslim who attends the mosque and frequently cites Koranic verses. The Hashemites, descendants of the Sharifs of Mecca, base their legitimacy on their direct lineage to the Prophet Muhammad. Hassan's life-style has facilitated amicable relations with the Muslim Brotherhood, the most important opposition faction in Jordan. He was also instrumental in repairing ties with Iran, strained over charges that Tehran was fomenting Islamic unrest...