Word: modestly
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...there is no deep structural problem or crisis in the arrangements for public service at Harvard. Indeed, during the review of 1994 we were told by many students and others that the support public service at Harvard was working well and did not require a major overhaul. Accordingly the modest changes being made now should not disrupt any existing public service activity or program...
...physical, chemical and technological systems. The fanciful animals that first appeared on nature's sketchpad remind Kauffman of early bicycles, with their odd-size wheels and strangely angled handlebars. "Soon after a major innovation," he writes, "discovery of profoundly different variations is easy. Later innovation is limited to modest improvements on increasingly optimized designs...
...Harvard men's basketball team will try to continue its modest two-game winning streak today when it squares off against Lafayette (1-2) at Lavietes Pavilion. Harvard (2-0) hopes to follow its blowout wins over Babson and Army with an impressive performance over an improved Lafayette squad...
With all these records, one might expect Hu to become distracted. But his focus for the last two years has remained on improving his performance, and don't expect that to change next season. Hu is a modest man who has not lost perspective on his accomplishments or on The Game...
...that hardly amounts to a declaration that peace is about to break out in Bosnia. Indeed, far from it. But if nothing else, the modest gesture attested to a spirit of grudging but determined compromise that seemed to pervade the first week of talks at Wright-Patterson. Perhaps that spirit stemmed from the Balkan leaders' recognition that this was probably their best and last foreseeable chance to craft peace. Or maybe it was owing to the tremendous diplomatic and military prestige America has staked on the conference's outcome. Whatever the reason, despite efforts to ratchet down expectations, a case...