His trainer and jockey, John Servis and Stewart Elliott, are Derby first-timers who have toiled for years on modest tracks.
It is easier, he said, to take a chance on someone new than an author with a modest track record.
Some corporations, including I.B.M., work with small suppliers who have good if modest track records by assigning an executive to give hands-on advice and guidance for periods of up to 18 months.
It should not be a surprise that the Westly company's portfolio includes only entrepreneurs who already had financing elsewhere and had established at least a modest track record before Mr. Westly invested in them.
Although Allegheny is hardly a hotbed for vaulting -- the winters are protracted, the college's track is cinder and the purchase of a few $500 poles can eat into a modest track and field budget -- Scott has benefited from a Division III environment, which offers neither athletic scholarships nor extreme pressure.
Fans poured into this modest track near the Jersey shore and emptied their wallets.
By contrast, Steve Jobs had no apparent interest in philanthropy, and Apple, Inc. has a modest track record, at best, for charitable giving.
On the wall in his modest track house in Berlin, he has pinned Charlie Chaplin's famous motto, "A day without laughter is a day wasted".
These factors severely hamper the power of genetic association studies and might explain why psychiatric genetics has had an extremely modest track record in pinpointing and characterizing susceptibility loci, even using the GWAS approaches.
Tracking the hands in relation to the virtual body position seems to be the most promising way to manipulate objects in the virtual world, as the learning curve for new users is modest and tracking reliability is not limited by hidden body parts due to an unfavourable camera position.
