Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...separate places to get a loan, invest in the stock market and buy insurance, rather than do all of his banking under the same roof. Visiting three different financial institutions is not an inconvenience to your run-of-the-mill investor. The vast majority of people use banks for modest loans, mortgages and various kinds of insurance. They don't need mega-banks with gross incomes larger than that of most countries...
...After three critically acclaimed albums on Seattle's independent sensation Up Records (former home of Built to Spill and Modest Mouse), Quasi have built a respectable body of work to draw from live. While a few songs sound as if they are just vehicles for Coomes' jilted worldview or a thundering Weiss drum solo, the majority manage to balance catchiness with noise. During the middle of the hour-long set, Janet Weiss took a brief but very impressive spell as lead vocalist on "Two By Two." Just in case anyone was feeling optimistic after Janet's airy vocals, Coomes returned...
...white-hot recruit," Melissa said, answering for her modest sister...
...Czech Republic to Indonesia and South Africa. If you live in such popular U.S. tourist spots as Los Angeles, New York City or Miami, you may find yourself deluged with fabulous offers: a condo on the beach in Barcelona, a castlelike "cottage" in Burgundy. Sometimes the accommodations are more modest than what you're offering in exchange. But timing and location can make up the difference. If you live in a less well-known area, you can write to prospects, regaling them with the hidden charms of greater Toledo or Tulsa, or luring them with the special amenities of your...
Initially, advances in treatment will probably result in only modest gains. Clinicians will be able to delay onset by several years and lessen the severity of symptoms. But by 2025, control could come to resemble a cure. For Alzheimer's has something in common with other brain disorders such as Parkinson's, Huntington's and mad-cow disease. Like them, it appears to be caused by misfolded proteins--in this case, beta amyloid and tau. And so one day in the 21st century it may become possible to vanquish Alzheimer's with a vaccine that targets these miscreants...