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That's why previous efforts to merge TV and telephone interests have been relatively modest. Earlier this year, Southwestern Bell acquired two cable systems in the metro Washington area -- far outside its operating region. Similarly, Pacific Telesis took an option to buy a cable system in Chicago, although it will need special permission to send cable programming to the system by satellite. Cox Enterprises and Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), the world's largest cable-TV operator, joined forces last year to buy Teleport, a company that provides a telephone service not covered by the Cable Act: private branch exchanges...
When asked about his homosexuality, W.H. Auden replied that he was a poet first and a "queen" second. It was a modest response in a less touchy time. Auden was, in fact, a great poet, but for all the public knew or cared, he was just an ordinary homosexual living and working in a world that, by tacit agreement, did not pry into people's sex lives. Even when the media came out of the closet -- pencils erect and cameras hot -- to chase stories about the New Libido, homosexuality was still a taboo subject...
...were trying to be modest, we were trying to be nice, to be un-French for a change." -- SENIOR FRENCH OFFICIAL EXPLAINING HOW AMERICAN DIPLOMATS MISCONSTRUED FRENCH SIGNALS INDICATING WILLINGNESS TO SUPPORT LIFTING THE ARMS EMBARGO IN BOSNIA
...which could cause a 12% increase in ultraviolet radiation. But these forecasts are based on the same computer models that have consistently underestimated the problem. Given the volatile and poorly understood chemistry of the upper atmosphere, no one can predict how severe the ozone depletion will be. Even a modest rise in the level of UV radiation could increase the risk of getting skin cancer or cataracts, damage crops and other plant life, and possibly affect climate patterns...
...things are different. Harvard went to Vermont carrying a modest two-game winning streak with it, and left with that streak still intact. Three in a row for the Crimson. And for the first time, Harvard (4-7, 1-3 Ivies) can fathom a winning season...