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Though P-Star is now a teenager and has achieved modest success (most notably as a cast member of the children's show "The Electric Company"), this is no feel-good story.

Macquarie Group is reportedly planning to enter the U.S. bond insurance market, specifically the steady and low-risk business of insuring municipal bonds, following in the footsteps of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which has achieved modest success since its entry into the business at the beginning of this year.

Missile defense has achieved modest successes, but it also has been marked by embarrassing failures.

Cuban efforts to promote private enterprises and expand private employment had achieved modest if uneven success.

For decades, numerous small-scale efforts to introduce improved stoves in countries like China, India and Nepal have achieved modest gains.

It had achieved modest success in its first year of attempting to accelerate economic reform but at the cost of increasing poverty and unemployment.

He first came to do business in China ten years ago, and had achieved modest success by 2004, when he placed a large order — ten shipping containers of shoes — only to discover, upon delivery, that his supplier had used cheap glue.

Yachty, whose playful songs like "1 Night" and "Minnesota" had achieved modest success online, remained standing for hours, dressed in an oversized red sweatshirt, even as other models, exhausted, began to sit.

By the time the two men met, Barry was no longer a visible presence on the classical-music scene, nor was his wife, Joyce Hatto, a talented pianist who had achieved modest recognition as a concert performer but hadn't played in public in more than a decade.

Big smoke!" While it is difficult to say with certainty who Rocko was, among the people known to have been on the 105th floor of the south tower with a walkie talkie was Roko Camaj, a window washer who had achieved modest fame as the subject of a children's book about his work.

In the past, scientists have achieved modest sprouting of these neurons in rats by inducing an inflammatory reaction in the eye.