Word: modicum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...verdict handed down from the Brooklyn Federal District Court on Monday, Lemerick Nelson Jr., who was acquitted of the murder of Rosenbaum in 1992, was found guilty of violating Rosenbaum's civil rights, giving the Rosenbaum family and the Jewish community some modicum of justice, however late. Nelson's co-defendant in the federal trial, who was not charged in 1992, had apparently called upon other blacks to "get Jews...
...beyond help. But if you're one of the many who's read a work or two by Ayn Rand and is intrigued by her "philosophy," should you spot a poster for an objectivist lecture and choose to attend, please go with a critical mind and a modicum of skepticism because the "lecture" part of their advertisements is a misnomer. Objectivist speakers do not teach; they indoctrinate and propagandize. If you're not careful, you just may be tricked into handing over your money--a real possibility, since selfishness is their credo. (Objectivist Club lectures are the only ones...
...applaud OCS officials' recognizing that students have classes and extracurricular commitments in the afternoons and often cannot make it to the building before the reading room closes at 4:30 p.m. The extra hours may also add a modicum of calm to the reading room during frenzied afternoons, because students will realize that they can come back after dinner to look for more information. And anything that would make the atmosphere less tense in the room where students decide their futures is a positive change. It is about time the College realized that students operate on a much later schedule...
...never ceases to amaze me how much medication or surgery a person will endure in order to avoid a modicum of self-restraint at the dinner table. Drugs like Redux do not treat the indolence and self-pity that are the true causes of our obesity and poor health. KEVIN RUMON Atherton, California Via E-mail
...that I have completed a year in Cambridge, it would not be wrong to say that it was easy to teach with a modicum of effectiveness: Everyone expected little and somehow collaborated to create whatever could be done with whatever got assembled in a classroom...