Word: modicum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Though Dole is hardly a prime candidate for the NAACP endorsement this year, the snub comes as the Republican Party has pledged to begin making serious inroads with African-Americans. But TIME Washington correspondent Tamala Edwards reports that Dole's campaign staff thinks the potential downside far outweighs the modicum of good will the NAACP appearance might generate. "They are afraid that he might put his foot in his mouth, especially when he speaks to a tepid or hostile audience," she says. "The campaign might have calculated that Dole has more to lose by addressing the convention, and potentially saying...
...closest semblance of security, even if in the process we destroy the sacred values of our society and brand people forever. Perhaps the saddest testament to our feeling of disintegration is that we are willing to give up on the possibilities of personal change to secure even a modicum of societal stability...
...difficult to understand why Harvard cannot produce thieves who demonstrate at least a modicum of cleverness. Are these students just morons? How can thieves who can pass the QRR and complete a Science A problem set not realize that they should attempt to cover their tracks? How stupid is someone who merely writes checks to themselves from the account of the organization that they are supposed to manage...
Still holding a modicum of hope, I handed her the sonnet. She said, "Oh. The rhyme scheme is right and everything...
...clean, got off with a $1,180 fine and two years' probation. Brown was reportedly paid thousands of dollars to tell her story to a British tabloid newspaper, but People Page editor Belinda Luscombe says she's refused plenty of offers stateside. "She does seem to be showing a modicum of taste, doesn't she? I get the impression she doesn't want to dwell among the ranks of the notorious like John Wayne Bobbitt or Joey Buttafuoco. Still, she is the world's luckiest hooker...