Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could almost not care less. Grove doesn't spend his money on planes, giant homes or fast cars. He lives on a relatively modest scale. He and Eva plan to leave their daughters "comfortable," but the bulk of his fortune will go to charity. The Groves have endowed 10 chemistry scholarships at CCNY, made contributions to prostate-cancer funds and supported the International Rescue Committee, which brought Grove from Vienna to America. (He still remembers the day the IRC representative in Manhattan sent him out on Fifth Avenue with a blank check to buy the best hearing aid he could...
...front pages, declining all interview requests. Friends helped assemble the fragments of his life: born poor in Elizabeth, N.J.; fiercely loyal to his ancestral Ireland and his alma mater, Cornell; a "shabby" dresser who flies coach and does not own a house or car. Reports of Feeney's modest trappings are true, save one--that he wears a $15 watch. A spokesman says it cost five bucks...
...irrepressible Gillett is a good bet to explore all avenues. By acquiring relatively modest sites like New Hampshire's Waterville Valley and Mount Cranmore, and California's Northstar-at-Tahoe and Bear Mountain, Gillett is hoping to create high-volume regional resorts within driving distance of major population centers--attractions for day skiers. "You've got to start somewhere," he says of this strategy...
...Japan, that is. The Japanese had been assigned the most modest goal: cut emissions 6% below 1990 levels by the year 2012, compared with 7% for the U.S. and 8% for the 15 nations of the European Union (E.U.). But the Japanese wouldn't budge. Five percent was their limit. So the U.S. delegation called Washington to report the impasse, and at 2 a.m. an exhausted Gore, still jet-lagged from his flight from Kyoto, got on the phone with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. Gore praised Hashimoto for Japan's leadership in playing host to the conference and then...
...massive ice-hockey stadium, known as Big Hat, holds a relatively modest 10,000 spectators. That will make hockey a prized ticket when the various dream teams (see below) begin playing...