Mickey Rooney signed his last will a few weeks before death, leaving a modest estate to a stepson who had been his caretaker but leaving out the rest of his family, his lawyer has revealed.
In 1891, a woman left a modest legacy to New York City to build a drinking fountain; what emerged more than three decades later was a large work by Frederick William MacMonnies, depicting a young, virtually nude male with a sword, trampling on two female figures, who represent urban vice.
In other words, if EMC joined the parade of companies breaking in two, and it spun off VMware, it would be left a modest sized company.
However, adjusting for a more limited range of confounding factors, excluding those factors possibly a consequence of reduced vision, left a modest increased risk: RR 1.19 (95% CI 1.06 to 1.34).
That leaves a more modest option: allowing emerging markets' quotas to increase by enough to give them more say but not by so much as to reduce America's share below 15%.The IMF's board has begun studying its options, and on January 28th recommended its membership agree on something by the end of June.
Its demise — at the hands of a graduate student from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who discovered flaws in the Harvard economists' methods — left a more modest assertion in its wake: heavily indebted nations grow more slowly.
But over all, Mr. Gonzales left a somewhat modest paper trail, in contrast to his work as White House counsel in Mr. Bush's first term, when he wrote and consulted on a series of legal memorandums, primarily in 2002, as the Bush administration worked out its legal strategy in the fight against terror.
However, for most mere mortals walking this earth, most will leave a more modest legacy that doesn't necessarily change the world but does leave a lasting footprint that will be remembered by those whose lives you touched.
An uncle who had had some financial luck left him a modest inheritance.
This left only a modest apparent profit on BSkyB Publications' accounts.
