Word: modicums
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...Bronx circa 1944. Steve grows up indifferent to everything but basketbal played in a schoolyard. But his parents do not include jump shots as a requisite of upward mobility, and the dutiful son soon drifts off court to City College, Equipped with a business degree and a modicum of ambition, he sets out for "the most dazzling job in the world"-as an advertising man. Madison Avenue finds him the least dazzling candidate in New York, so Steve heads toward Los Angeles, where hey know how to do bittersweet by the numbers: No. 1, the rise to the summit...
...involvement." Put simply, everyone was on the make. "Let's compare notes" was a favorite phrase among journalists. Rumor--the highest form of convention participation--had it that Detroit loved more than a good party. But those gathered in the city for the convention conducted their affairs with a modicum of judiciousness; they made sure that, given the convention's short life, they didn't get too deeply "involved...
...this mission is the summit in Venice, the real meaning is a search for some kind of cohesion in the frayed alliance. In personal terms it could be the final test of Carter as a world leader. Can he inject the tired veins of the democracies with a modicum of courage and purpose? Maybe...
...summer athletes also merit at least a modicum of recognition for years of anonymous toil. Deprived--some would say robbed--of a chance to strut their stuff on the world's stage, tributes are even more in order. Since the athletes have become pawns among the players of international politics--particularly ironic when you consider the government's total failure to support amateur sport--this summer's events may mark the death of what grains of incentive remain for American amateur athletes. Now that we have faced the fact that the Olympics will not be with us this summer...
...ensure a modicum of method amid the madness, the Associated Harvard Alumni (AHA), in characteristic University fashion, has a committee, which clings to its arcane title of the Committee on the Happy Observance of Commencement. Or, as those involved like to say, the "Happy Committee...