Word: modicums
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...resold to Westerners for 30 times that, or more than double the average yearly income in China. "Who would pay that much for a mushroom," Wu marvels. "Is it because they think it's an aphrodisiac?" (Since medieval times, many have believed just that.) Nevertheless, Wu does maintain a modicum of pride about the 40-50 tons of truffles that his team of 20,000 gatherers harvests for him each year. "They taste just as good as the French ones, with maybe a little less aroma," he contends?although he concedes that he's never actually tasted a P?rigord truffle...
...reality that will emerge as the dust settles at Najaf will strengthen the likelihood that - as Anthony Cordesman argues in a PDF download from the Center for Strategic and International Studies - in order to achieve at least a modicum of stability in Iraq, the U.S. and its local allies will be forced to accept a substantial political role for elements they'd once hoped to eliminate...
...expect that they'd be returned to power by the voters, the temptation may arise to delay the election. But the security crisis that could be sparked by such a move might function as a restraint. Instead, the new government may be hoping that if tough measures restore a modicum of security in Iraqis' lives, they may be inclined to vote for the incumbents come next January...
...Banks-Johnson has managed to balance the dichotomies that loomed so large in her life, as her job as post-production producer of the Oprah Winfrey Show proves. It allows her to continue working in entertainment as she did at Harvard yet also to have a greater modicum of security...
...reasons for cutting deals with both the insurgents in Fallujah and the Sadrists at Najaf and elsewhere is that the essential requirement of the U.S. for the June 30 handover is a modicum of calm. If Coalition forces wage battles of the type that have raged in Baghdad's Shiite slums and across the south in recent weeks, Iraqis will have a hard time believing that anything has changed with the hand-over. U.S. officers running the war on the ground appear to have concluded some time ago that it is unrealistic to imagine that the insurgents can be eliminated...