Word: modicums
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...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...
...F.D.R. and Winston Churchill made scores of tactical errors that cost thousands of Allied lives. Did they apologize? Did they say they were sorry for the disastrous Operation Market Garden ("a bridge too far") or for the terrible losses in the Battle of the Bulge? It takes but a modicum of humility and humanity to recognize that in the pressure of war, tactical errors are inevitable...
Even Mickey Rourke’s guest appearance is restrained. This is a guy who briefly quit acting to become a professional boxer. (Perhaps demonstrating Scott’s need for a modicum of Top Gun pizzazz, he has Rourke’s character killed by a mysterious samurai sword late in the film...
...F.D.R. and Winston Churchill made scores of tactical errors that cost thousands of Allied lives. Did they apologize? Did they say they were sorry for the disastrous Operation Market Garden ("a bridge too far") or for the terrible losses in the Battle of the Bulge? It takes but a modicum of humility and humanity to recognize that in the pressure of war, tactical errors are inevitable...