The big oil companies that drove past booms have only modest interests left here.
In his model, this would have only modest effects on global welfare; but how confident can we be of that?
Leading scholars of the Fed voiced skepticism about the latest step, which even Fed officials acknowledge will have only modest effects on employment and growth.
But for most farm products, the phasing out of these subsidies is likely to have only modest effects on world prices — at most a few percentage points.
Kineret, a drug for rheumatoid arthritis introduced this year, is Amgen's first really new drug, and analysts expect it to have only modest sales.
What's more, if the economy were to head downhill fast, the Fed, despite its public worries about inflation, has plenty of scope for cutting interest rates.All told, the credit wobbles so far are likely to have only modest economic consequences.
Although state economic statistics have only modest predictive power as compared with the national numbers, Mr. Obama may be benefiting from the fact that Ohio's unemployment rate has fallen substantially — to 7.3 percent from a peak of 10.6 percent.
Many states either do not regulate them or have only modest rules for them; New York is among a small number of states that require background checks for private sales at shows.
Standard & Poor's, a ratings agency, had 621 bonds on standby for a downgrade in mid-July; that was slightly below the 12-month average.As a result, the latest bout of investor caution might have only modest repercussions for business investment.
But the new recruits have only modest teaching responsibilities; especially in big undergraduate courses, the burden of teaching falls on graduate student instructors and adjunct faculty, higher education's replaceable parts.
The idea is unpopular in Poland and seems to have only modest support among a majority of Germans, but it is an article of faith among many of those who lost their homes all those many decades ago.
