Word: modestly
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Lewis declined to advance the bill, calling it "confusing" with only "modest changes...
...good reason, given the sharp division of opinion on this question, to go through the many layers of approvals needed to make this change, simply to effect the modest alteration of adding a signature to women's diplomas in their long-standing form," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message to Stewart...
Taking issue with Lewis' use of the term "modest," Emma C. Cheuse '98, a sponsor of the bill, said these changes are very important to women's rights...
Books do not always reflect their authors' real-life personalities, but Spock's did. He was as he seemed: modest, funny, empathetic, confident enough in his own knowledge not to be stuffy about it. He was also a most unlikely revolutionary...
...threat? Scientists generally agree on the best strategy for avoiding disaster: launch a rocket to intercept the intruder and, at the very least, change its orbit. If the asteroid is small and detected many years and orbits before its predicted impact, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to the asteroid at its closest approach to the sun," says Los Alamos' Canavan. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during each orbit, ensuring that the asteroid misses Earth by a wide margin." That little push, he notes, could be provided by conventional high explosives...