Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ethnic studies is a moderate and modest request. All students at Harvard are asking for is more courses in ethnic studies. More scholarship...
...former writing teacher (Stanford, University of Wyoming) is also a force of corporate profit. Her first two novels were modest successes; her third was Waiting to Exhale, which swept the nation's bedrooms, beaches, hair salons, reading groups and rush-hour subway trains, selling almost 700,000 hard copies in the process and 3 million more in paperback. Numbers like these would have drawn any publisher's attention, of course. The fact that an African-American author was writing about vivid characters with whom many black women could identify had the added effect of proving to booksellers that there...
...late Friday afternoon, with the final session winding down and the supply of Jackie and Camelot memorabilia drying up, the feeding frenzy at Sotheby's reached a climax. Three modest cushions, assessed at $50 to $100, were snapped up for $25,300. When it was all over, the total proceeds from the auction, which the upper ranges of Sotheby's estimates would have placed at about $4 million, came to $34.5 million...
...dropped to 5.4 percent -->