George Soros's Open Society programme offers one modest solution: it tops up the pay of a small group of elite public-sector workers who have returned to countries in Central and Eastern Europe after being educated abroad.
They dress pretty much like students at any explicitly religious American school, in a style you could call modern modest, topped off with hijabs for most of the women and kufis for some of the men.
And in the nine-month period ending with the third quarter of 2012, Yahoo earned a more modest 24percentt of its top line from Microsoft.
The war ended before the squadron could go into action, but the RNAS had already used torpedoes dropped from Short seaplanes to sink enemy ships in the Mediterranean, and the Cuckoo, with its modest top speed of 103 miles (166 km) per hour and endurance of four hours, heralded the eventual demise of the battleship in the face of air-power dominance at sea.
Even at Roberto Cavalli's secondary line, Just Cavalli, a brand known for flashy femininity, there were brown and mustard polo necks and cuban collars, although in Cavalli's world no woman would ever want to cover up entirely so these modest tops were teamed with revealing lacy panels and miniskirts.
These examples are only to give you a sense of the elements that may be incorporated into ero (corsets, bloomers showing, low-cut but still modest an frilly tops).
Notice that the 81-99 percentiles have seen only modest gains; it's really the top 1 percent that drives the story.
After modest success, it soared to the top of the charts in 1955 as the theme song for the teenage rebel movie "The Blackboard Jungle".
Despite Mr. Rothfus's modest salary — top Wall Street lawyers earn substantial seven-figure salaries — the millionaire epithet is accurate.
A beloved figure of Chinese popular culture is about to receive a tribute that will make the mausoleum of Mao Zedong look downright modest: Bruce Lee, top right, will be the subject of a 50-episode biography, to be broadcast on state-run Chinese television, The Associated Press reported.
