Think there was a connection between Sanchez's passing numbers — 11 of 18 for 82 yards and two 5-yard touchdown throws — which, though modest, earned him a solid rating of 109, and the holes the Jets' offensive line tore through the Colts' defense for Shonn Greene to run through?
By comparison, women with a more modest earning spouse did not experience as much of a dip in income following the birth of their first child.
Modest accomplishments earn bubbly praise.
Some teams rattle off strings of extra-base hits that look straight out of the semiprofessional leagues, but on most clubs, any execution of baseball fundamentals, however modest, will earn accolades.
Those are indeed new American jobs, but the pay scale is modest — they earn $11 to $12 an hour to start, plus health insurance, 75% employer-paid — not quite the renaissance sometimes suggested by the presidential candidates.
A retired chief executive, a politician whose career had run out of steam, a lawyer: a seat on a company board was a way to boost earnings and earn modest distinction.
But she also benefits from 2009′s Bride Wars, which was a modest hit earning $115 million at the global box office on a low estimated budget of $30 million.
That Switzerland, with 17 players from its modest National League A, earned a point in the standings against the 23 National Hockey League stars who compose Canada's Olympic men's team says a lot about the strength of Europe's domestic leagues.
Yahoo! has consistently beaten expectations in the three years since it went public and is currently worth more than Boeing after all, it actually makes a modest profit, earning $25m in the past quarter.Yahoo!'s career from search engine to content aggregator has been phenomenal.
Roma, which will probably begin its season next weekend, pending the resolution of a players' strike in Italy, may not be the most successful club in Italy, but nor is it a modest one, earning $177 million in 2009-10, 18th in the world, according to Deloitte.
