At least a modest shake-up of ministers was expected.
There are two more disco balls, of slightly more modest size, shaking their own booties above the audience, speckling the auditorium with dizzying dots.
In keeping with its limited space — four small tables inside, and a few more outside — Burger Factory operates on a much more modest scale than the Shake Shacks, but this allows Mr. Elstein time to give his attention to "fresh food, freshly made and well-priced".
Recall that the quake which jolted Japan's (and the world's) largest nuclear-power station, at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa on the Japan Sea coast, in 2007, was a more modest magnitude 6.8 (see "Shaken, but not stirred", August 10th 2007).
That is to say, patients administered dexmedetomidine become alert and can respond to commands following modest stimulation such as shaking (Kamibayashi & Maze, 2000; Venn & Grounds, 2001).
Yet, the shaking caused by so modest a tremor, at such distances from the epicentre, caught experts by surprise.
Knocking out 300-600 calonies on the stairclimber doesn't begin to "compensate" for a supersized fries and a medium shake, nor even the most modest dish at El Torito or Olive Garden.
Certainly, the scale of resistance to a relatively modest reform underlines how hard it is to shake things up—especially when public opinion seems to back the protests and the president is so unpopular.
Speaking at the family's modest south London flat, Cherno's father, Al-Hajie, shakes his head when he thinks about what his son has been through.
"I don't see anything that shakes the view it will be a modest pace of recovery," said Joshua Shapiro, chief United States economist with MFR Inc. Procter & Gamble rose 57 cents, to $61.76.
Five Guys and Shake Shack will be aiming for a more modest type of consumer.
