Yet, as the Yankees will discover during their three-game series against the Orioles that started Monday night, the stadium has undergone a modest face-lift that is partly a response to what newer ballparks have done since 1992.
Many delegates and analysts warned that failure to reach some sort of accord, even a modest, face-saving deal that pushes the tough questions off into the future, could doom the entire process.
Page B2 Sports NOW 20, ORIOLE PARK UNDERGOES A MAKEOVER The Orioles' ballpark in Baltimore, built in 1992, has undergone a modest face-lift, turning an unused area in center field into a roof deck and adding murals and bronze statues.
Mr. Kolb, missing for three weeks before a tip led the police to his body, was raised in Boston-area enclaves where privilege wears a more modest face.
Mr. Collinson puts an appealingly modest face on his wildly immodest project.
There is still no question that Mr. Corzine is not in Vermont or Minnesota, and would do well to put the most modest face possible on his ambitious proposals -- with price tags that a recent New York Times analysis placed at $20 to $40 billion for health insurance, $70 billion for expanded Medicare coverage and $55 billion for education.
For the third year in a row, a modest recovery faces head winds as winter turns to spring.
Watching this unfold from the outside, the angry commenters felt similar to those who took Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" at face value.
Coffin can no longer leave home — a modest white house facing the town green — without a wheelchair, so he tends not to stray far.
Children under 17 would continue to be admitted free, and senior citizens would face a modest raise, to $25, from the current $10 each year.
