Word: modicums
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...already begun additional computations to check the gravitational effects that Planet X would have on the known orbits of the outer planets. Still, the real test must be visual-a photograph of Planet X. At its great distance from the sun. however, Planet X would reflect only a modicum of light. Furthermore, Brady's calculations indicate that the planet is now located in the Constellation Cassiopeia, which is cluttered with so many stars that the planet would be hard to find. Nonetheless, Brady is hopeful that a sharp-eyed astronomer, scanning photographic plates, will some day detect...
...critical, although indirect, bias in the entire proceeding, one which seems to me repugnant to any true meaning of an impartial appeal. You have nonetheless insisted on adhering to that procedure, appending at various points a few procedural safeguards and concessions to my rights in order to introduce a modicum of fairness to those proceedings...
...this rights was never accorded me, and the slate therefore consisted, and the final committee was formed, of persons of the GSD Faculty's choosing. The election procedure called for limiting the persons asked to serve to those 20 receiving the most votes. This stipulation assumedly introduced some additional modicum of fairness to an inherently unfair nominating procedure: given the fact that there was no limit on the number of nominations and no criteria for placing names in nomination, this provision at least insured that persons receiving a miniscule number of votes would not find their way onto the committee...
Beatty's nervous, sardonic energy gives $ some much needed momentum and at least a modicum of charm. As the hooker, Goldie Hawn displays her familiar Laugh-In mannerisms with witless bravado. She is suffering from a terminal case of the cutes...
...grow exponentially. But when all available land has been developed, the introduction of New Enterprise falls--drastically--as does the construction of housing. There is simply no place to put anything new without tearing buildings down. And since most of the buildings are of fairly recent origin, even a modicum of demolition is economically unfeasible...