Word: modestly
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...richest American, but even he can complain that $15 billion ain't what it used to be. According to The Wealthy 100: A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present, by Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther, Gates ranks a mere 31st. He is ahead of the modest Mark Hopkins, one of the powers who built the Central Pacific Railroad, just behind meat-packer Philip Armour, and way, way behind John D. Rockefeller at No. 1. Gates doesn't figure to threaten old John D. The authors determined the standings by looking at the tycoons' fortunes in relation...
...Disney, Ovitz's expensively renovated offices stand empty. His Gulfstream III jet, which he sold to the company when he went to work there, is now happily occupied by ABC president Bob Iger. Apparently Ovitz has replaced it with a more modest Westwind...
...that his desire for public service remained strong. But "there is still no cure for the common birthday." Glenn said, smiling. "Although my health remains excellent . . . another term in the Senate would take me at the end of that term to the age of 83." It was a typically modest exit for a man elected in 1972 as the symbol of a glorious time of progress, and whose fourth Senate term will end in 1998. Glenn marveled at technology's advances from his father's time to his own, and urged the students present to take up the mantle...
...been pointed out that the total number of A. beta deposits show only a modest correlation with degree of dementia," Selkoe writes in a recent Science Magazine article. "But this is precisely what one would expect from an initiating factor...
...company has maintained its traditionally modest prices. A small bag of candy hearts sold for 88 cents in the Square yesterday, and a quirky, plastic candy cane of hearts could be snagged for ten cents more...