Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, older and wiser and practiced in humility, Clinton is toning it down. He promised only modest enterprises and gestures during the campaign, and so the 53rd Inaugural is built to scale: smaller, shorter, cheaper, spread over three days, with eight tents on the Mall instead of 65. Gone is Barbra Streisand, who decided to attend a movie awards ceremony instead. At the "vital center" of this Inaugural are such artists as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and country music singer Trisha Yearwood. Cymbals and symbols have been muted: there will be no walk across the Memorial...
...Government is over; perhaps the same is true of big Inaugurals. But it may be that Clinton has learned something else: lowering expectations is a powerful way to set the stage for exceeding them. If the first Inaugural was a grandiose affair that presaged only modest achievements, perhaps only a modest beginning can prefigure something truly grand...
...years he was the fiery voice of TV liberalism on Crossfire; during the same period I battled bravely against my quick-witted and Republican mother-in-law. While Kinsley and I both contribute to this magazine, he tends to get a full page or more, while I get a modest two columns. And when he left old media to go to Microsoft, where he founded Slate, an online magazine www.slate.com that transmitted its first bits seven months ago, pundits everywhere interpreted the event as a sign that serious journalism was finally coming to the Web. When I launched the Netly...
...office is rather modest, sparsely decorated and filled with standard-issue furniture. The biggest piece of art is a huge photo of a Pentium processor chip. There are smaller pictures of Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Henry Ford, though he admits that he has little admiration for the latter. The few personal pictures include one of the original dozen Microsoft employees (most with scruffy beards, except him), one of Ann Winblad on a trip to Germany, and one with Melinda and nine friends on a 1995 vacation to Indonesia. There are no pictures of Jennifer displayed, but he pulls...
...Harvard players now look to take that momentum first into the exam room and then into their next game against fifth-ranked University of New Hampshire in two weeks. With only a month-and-a-half left in the season, and a modest .500 league record, making the grade has never been more important for the Crimson...