Word: modestly
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Meanwhile, a call was put through to Paul, who three hours earlier had gone home to the modest apartment on the rue des Petits-Champs he shared with his mother. A onetime French air force officer, he had worked at the hotel for 11 years. Though he had taken two special driving courses at Mercedes headquarters in Stuttgart, he apparently did not have the professional chauffeur's license that French law requires. Acquaintances last week told reporters he had once been a heavy drinker, though a Ritz employee claimed that over the past year Paul's drinking had slowed down...
...Sultan denied the charges. Al Fayed bitterly attacked the report as a smear. "They could not accept that an Egyptian could own Harrods, so they threw mud at me," he once said. But acquaintances of his in Alexandria also describe the Fayeds as a modest family: al Fayed's father was a language teacher, and al Fayed grew up on the rougher side of town. He started as a small-time trader there, selling Singer sewing machines and Coca-Cola. In the early 1950s the future Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi offered al Fayed a share in a Khashoggi business that...
...labeling to help consumers understand the nutritional content of the foods they bought. But the Food and Drug Administration objected, and the A.H.A. eventually dropped the program--though a few years later the FDA itself started requiring more explicit food labels. (The A.H.A. has since instituted a more modest "food certification" program...
...model commercial arrangement for a health group may have been devised by the American Dental Association. For years it has put its seal of acceptance on products that it has tested--at its own expense. Two years ago, it started charging modest application fees that cover about a third of its $1.2 million testing budget. Says Kenneth Burrell of the A.D.A.'s Council on Scientific Affairs: "The A.D.A. seal is viewed very positively, and we didn't want to lose that...
...Down the street on the Capitol steps, Republican lawmakers and a flock of Boy Scouts with balloons gathered around the nearly deposed Newt Gingrich and the newly grandiloquent Trent Lott, who declared, "Today we celebrate the beginning of a new era of freedom." And his was about the most modest toast...