Word: modicums
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VALENTI by contrast was poker-faced throughout the performance. Like Buswell he exhibited a modicum of uneasiness in the first sonata but went on to demonstrate the tremendous tensile strength of his fingers and, at the same, time, his amazing agility. His playing was motoric but not without subtleties of phrasing and dynamics. Together with Buswell, he was at his best when the music was at its most kinetic. At times his registration was somewhat arbitrary and misconceived, such as in the third movement of the Sonata in A, where he played the basso continuo left hand on the more...
...Communist victory in China and the French defeat in Vietnam--a defeat, as I have noted, by a Communist Party that had achieved leadership of a nationalist movement. And at each juncture that we felt ourselves losing our grip, we increased our investment. Opportunities to exit with a modicum of grace were regularly by-passed in the expectation of eventual success. And now that that success seems further off than ever, our stakes have been transformed, and exit is infinitely harder...
...Modicum of Confidence. Though the disorder and violence have naturally frightened off most foreign investment, Mobutu's government is gradually managing to win a modicum of confidence. Intercontinental Hotels Corp., for example, is going ahead with plans to put up a $6,500,000 hotel in Kinshasa, the first to go up there since independence in 1960. Two American and several European companies are studying the possible construction of auto-assembly plants in the Congo. The Union Minière mining empire, now nationalized and called Gecomin, is operating almost at full capacity; half of the company...
...Milton Hilton. Obote, who took two years in politics and economics at Makerere University College in Kampala, is cunning and tough. Five years of his rule have brought Uganda a modicum of stability, expanded trade and improved intertribal relations. In the capital of Kampala, Obote's modern outlook is symbolized by the dozens of new office and apartment buildings that brace the skyline. Nearing completion is a skyscraper hotel bearing on its roof a six-foot neon sign with Obote's first name. It has been nicknamed, naturally, "the Milton Hilton...
...money it takes to live in the modest way they would like to, even to keep up their record collections. Such a student, when he emerges with an LL.B., may feel that he has a kind of certificate that commits him to nothing in particular, provides him with a modicum of career insurance, and the far more important commodity of career assurance...