Word: modeste
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...Saga Group, his family's business, in late 2004. The British travel, media and financial-services company that targets older consumers attracted several major bidders, with London private-equity firm Charterhouse ultimately paying $2.4 billion. Not bad for what De Haan's father started 53 years earlier as a modest operator of guest hotels and tours in the English seaside resort of Folkestone...
...don’t think that I should use my position to make it happen,” he said. Modest man, modest sales: Boeckx’s students read just excerpts of his “Linguistic Minimalism,” which as of February 11 ranked #509,244 in sales on amazon.com...
...hearts during the Great Depression, there was little in Silent Witness's background to suggest he would one day be so dominant. Born in Australia, Silent Witness is the son of El Moxie, a middling U.S. sprinter, and Jade Tiara, a winner of minor Australian races. Because of his modest pedigree, Silent Witness was sold as a yearling to horse trader David Price for just $39,000. He was also gelded, a procedure in which a thoroughbred's testicles are surgically removed. It's commonly done to colts that have no stud value, or that get too frisky...
...thought it through for a minute or rationally talked it over - should be in. It is nice, of course, for them to wear good clothes, live in pretty places and offer up the occasional funny line. This is not much to ask, but it is surprising how often these modest boons are withheld from the yearning audience. Because I Said So is not a divine lunacy like, say, Bringing Up Baby. It?s rooted more in the realm of TV sitcoms than in the movies. But if you don't expect too much of it, you may find yourself pleasantly...
...mannered, history-obsessed perfectionist--hoped to find herself in. If she has been more inclined than her peers to acknowledge the Administration's missteps, particularly in Iraq, she has yet to show she has the ability or will to correct them. Her accomplishments as Secretary of State have been modest, and even those have begun to fade. She pushed Bush to appoint the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, only to see him ignore the commission's call to pull back from the fight in Iraq; instead Bush plans to send more Americans there. She persuaded Bush to back European-led negotiations...