After its inspection of the Tesoro refinery in October 2008 -- 18 months before the fire that killed Matt Gumbel and his co-workers -- Silverstein's agency reduced an already-modest $85,700 fine to $12,250, and withdrew 14 of 17 alleged violations.
*Now that the trade publication Advertising Age has reported a decline in the already modest sales for cereals from the Kellogg Company featuring characters licensed from the Walt Disney Company, doesn't a request in a recent Kellogg's ad to "hurry" and buy them "before they disappear" take on an entirely new meaning?
But their expectations were already modest enough: a viable, independent state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem -- a mere 22percentt of their original land.
They claim that at a time when everyone is having to decrease budgets, the cited "lack of aesthetic innovation" at the ETB was clutching at straws to find a reason to cut its already modest budget from €110,000 (£78,000) to €100,000 next year, and thereafter to remove it altogether.
American Crime, a superb show for two seasons, crumbled into a mess this year, leading its already modest viewership to drop further.
It's true that the court-approved criminalization of a practice accepted by the medical profession could create a "chilling effect," further reducing the already modest ranks of abortion doctors.
Add those 13,400 to the 21,500 who turned out to watch Leicester rediscover a bit of form on Friday night and competition in the Midlands is going to be hard for a side which is leaving its already modest fan base two hours to the south.
And this does not take into account the taxation of those benefits nor the rising health care costs that take a larger and larger bite out of those already modest benefits.
Toward the end of his first term, Mr. Obama essentially abandoned his already modest peacemaking agenda in exchange for a lull in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign for war with Iran.
One model, Matthew Foley, had his already modest 28-inch waist cranked down to an hourglass with corset lacing outside his coat.
And the war was almost the last straw in a tough year, forcing some hotel companies to abandon their already modest earnings forecasts for this year.
