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ROOM SERVICE We ordered one "American breakfast" (28 dollars), thinking it might be big enough for two, but got a modest portion of scrambled eggs, potatoes and Canadian bacon.
Like other wholesalers, Christian earns a modest base but gets a small piece of the assets she brings in.
Prior to McKinsey, Chhor started a number of businesses — of which he says he got a modest exit but plenty of experience — and now he is turning his attention to Southeast Asia, where growing internet access among a cumulative base of 650 million consumers is opening up new opportunities for tech and internet businesses.
Ilion, which had been promised a 35 percent increase, got a modest boost in the first two years.
The people who sit on the boards of America's largest corporations got a modest raise last year.
John Cook, 55, who got a modest inheritance that allowed him to leave the company where he earned $150,000 a year as a database consultant and enter nursing school.
The actors got a modest raise, which will rise to 3.5% in the third year of the contract.
The downtrodden wireless sector got a modest boost after wireless technology proved invaluable in the wake of the disaster.
In February, Android Wear got a modest 2.0 update, and the following month, the operating system got a full-on rebrand.
He's got a modest three-room office, decorated with paintings of Airstream trailers, on the sixth floor of an office building near Grand Central Station.
