Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secretive anti-tobacco activists manages to plant him on the jury. He then easily takes control, getting an exceedingly dim judge to banish balky jurors and drugging another uncooperative panelist himself. She, meanwhile, remains offstage (not an asset in the sort of novel in which at least a modest degree of bodice ripping is expected) but does manage to drive the tobacco lawyers to blithering distraction with a series of enigmatic phone calls. Thus the good guys are as crooked as the bad guys, though they don't cause lung cancer...
...hallmark of Fox News would be locally produced programs with assistance at the national level." Amos' staff did no news gathering but acted essentially as a distribution service, gathering stories from overseas suppliers and from Fox-owned stations in the U.S. and feeding them to affiliates. But even this modest effort was deemed too expensive and was scaled back a couple of years later. Instead, Murdoch shifted his attention (and his pocketbook) to acquiring new stations and buying up the rights to sports programming, like N.F.L. football...
...like lovers against the setting sun. Sandy has one underwater swimming-and-petting scene with Flipper that may be the most sensuous movie aquacade since Brooke Shields and Chris Atkins went skinny-dipping in The Blue Lagoon. Yet for all the cornography, Flipper has its tugs and charms. This modest movie is about not much more than teaching kids to care for animals and, occasionally, for grownups...
...million was mandated by Congress in the budget agreement two weeks ago, the Administration's move to do so last week was a dramatic gesture that officials hoped would dampen the upward price spiral. The President's order, said White House spokesman Mike McCurry, is a "precise, prudent and modest step, designed to move the market in the right direction...
...occurs. Over eight days of crusading in Australia, Franklin Graham eventually posts an audience turnout to establish him in the ranks of the big-time preachers: 114,000 people, the largest numbers of his career. But the response in Sydney could actually be more significant. The crowds may be modest, but over three days, 1,555 out of 25,000 who attended have answered the invitation, coming forward to profess their relationship with the risen Christ. The actual ratio is 6.1%, a better record than Billy's over three previous Australian swings. And over 80% of those responding are under...