Haitian newspapermen, whose salaries are modest, write volumes of poetry to eke out their subsistence.
"She herself is the opposite of modest," writes her former tutor, Peter Cook.
"Life companies' losses on commercial mortgages should be very modest," writes Berg in his report.
Tchaikovsky was ready for the nourishment of new attitudes and styles so he could continue growing as a composer, and his brother Modest writes that he was impressed by the "force and vitality" in some of the Five's work.
Mr. Ackermann's involvement helped clear the way for big private banks to accept a modest write-down on the value of their Greek bonds.
A limited default, like rescheduling combined with modest write-downs, would make the task more manageable and would have the benefit of appropriately punishing risk-blind lenders and complacent politicians.
BNP Paribas was up 3.1%, in Paris, after France's biggest bank announced first-quarter profits that beat analyst forecasts and only modest write-downs linked to the American subprime mortgage market.
There were further incarcerations for petty crimes, but he managed to make a modest living writing pulp fiction — crime stories and romances and tales of travel.
There were further incarcerations for petty crimes, but he managed to make a modest living writing pulp fiction crime stories and romances and tales of travel.
