From Rockingham to Gretna Green, to Bundy, and on to the "one-story contemporary" in Malibu that she saw on the Friday before she died, her houses got more modest and her options narrower.
From Rockingham to Gretna Green, to Bundy, and on to the "one-story contemporary" in Malibu that she saw on the Friday before she died, her houses got more modest and her options narrower... View Article Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and the senior legal analyst for CNN since 2002.
This week's decision to send a further 17,000 American troops to Afghanistan is in part a sign of how badly the war is going".Victory", defined in terms that get more modest by the month, seems more distant than ever.
"It does not get more modest or more fair than that, but we have a responsibility to put these options forward for people to debate and consider because we want to see talent protected.
The producer price numbers were in line with the big-picture trend of inflation in recent months and suggested that while price increases on the whole are getting more modest, they are still prone to bouncing around unpredictably.
Rather less studied are the young European graduates who have arrived on a large scale since the 1990s, and especially during the 2000s: some, yes, to become Eurostars à la Favell but the majority to get more modest employment as what Conradson and Latham (2005a) and others (e.g. Parutis, 2014) have labelled 'middling transnationals'.
Defence spending is unlikely to get more than a modest increase in the coming budget.
Moreover, big pay rises for pilots make humbler airline workers keen to get more than the modest rises they normally win.
These experiences are rare responses to television; movies in theaters can induce grand feelings, but TV, at its best and worst, gets a more modest reaction: annoyance, amusement, contentment, stupor.
He might try to run on reforming the public pension system, but Brown occupies that space, too, having backed the reforms that Schwarzenegger and Maldonado pushed, and having gotten more expansive if still modest reforms of his own.
We can't even get far more modest measures through the Hill".
