Word: modicum
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...taking credit for her accomplishments - if only internally - is sinful" and hence, perhaps, requires a price to be paid. A mild secular analog, he says, might be an executive who commits a horrific social gaffe at the instant of a crucial promotion. For Teresa, "an occasion for a modicum of joy initiated a significant quantity of misery," and her subsequent successes led her to perpetuate...
...vulnerable is the Web? Extremely. Just about anyone with a modicum of determination can successfully mount an attack. The "tools and instructions are readily available at a low cost," says Oliver Friedrichs, a director at the security response unit of Symantec, a U.S. software firm. Internet chat rooms and bulletin boards can furnish would-be saboteurs with instructions on launching their own strike. And defending against these attacks is tricky. Large corporations can invest in clever hardware that detects odd patterns of requests for its websites and routes away the suspicious ones. Smaller firms, not used to handling huge volumes...
...represent a more efficient use of the CEB budget, it would have a lasting impact on the rather flimsy fraternal feeling among the student body. Furthermore, these small events are far easier to plan: The promise of food and entertainment is guaranteed to lure some students, and even a modicum of experimentation will reveal the most popular opportunities. The CEB’s present movie-showings, dances and discussions form only a small fraction of what could be accomplished given the resources and motivation. Fortunately, it seems the somewhat misguided emphasis on larger College events is beginning to shift...
...novel” in name, but anyone looking for either entertainment or insight in this work will be disappointed. The book offers no new opinions or perspectives on the current Iraq War or, more generally, on the tense situation in the Middle East, and it fails to provide a modicum of enjoyment. The work’s basic premise is very intriguing: the CIA will construct an identity for a corpse, a dead man who never actually existed, and pretend that he was in contact with the leader of Al-Qaeda, whom they hope to force out of hiding. However...
...report of this unusual case last September was just the latest shock from a bracing new field, the science of consciousness. Questions once confined to theological speculations and late-night dorm-room bull sessions are now at the forefront of cognitive neuroscience. With some problems, a modicum of consensus has taken shape. With others, the puzzlement is so deep that they may never be resolved. Some of our deepest convictions about what it means to be human have been shaken...