Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...salary increased by 664 percent to reach a 'modest' $6.5 million per year," he said...
...White House. Later, when it came time to leave the city, she stipulated that bigwig Vernon Jordan be the one to help her in her job search and presented a rather intimidating list of desired positions. "Assistant producer at any of the networks," her not-so-modest proposal began, ending with "anything at George magazine." (The George job never materialized, of course, and its editor, John Kennedy Jr., may have dodged a legal bill...
Aldrin scorns such plans. So modest a passenger spacecraft could carry just a handful of people, which could push the price of even a steerage seat to $100,000. Instead Aldrin prefers a concept that airlines using wide-body planes embraced long ago: carry lots of people at once and drive down the per-passenger cost. To get such an orbital airbus flying, he founded ShareSpace, a nonprofit company designed to help fund and promote mass-market space travel. ShareSpace's vision for cosmic tourism includes Earth-orbiting ships carrying as many as 100 people and clusters of modules that...
...these reasons, I suspect that as sex selection and other reproductive technologies become more efficient and less costly, they may be embraced by American families of even modest means who ask themselves, Why not? What was once unimaginable could become routine--and the link between the sex act and reproduction will no longer be seen as sacred. Ultimately, this may prove to be the real significance of sex selection: by breaching a powerful psychological barrier, it will pave the way for true designer babies, who could really turn society upside down...
...Ellen, forced to give up an all consuming career to nurse her mother (Renee Zellweger, in a wonderfully clenched performance). This reconciliation Streep encourages in the subtlest of ways. There's no apology for Kate's lifetime of good cheer and common sense, just an opening up of those modest qualities, so that her family and we are gently, unsentimentally embraced and enlightened by their grace and bravery...