The first section of "Funny People" buzzes along on George and Ira's relationship and the modestly comic, often unsettling give and take between the famous and the not famous, which in Hollywood terms means the powerful and the weak.
On one side are the individual pension-fund managers and managers of charitable endowments, often modestly paid, struggling to meet their actuarial requirements, and looking for assistance.
It provides jobs for many Tunisians who rent rooms in outlying suburbs and make up the bulk of the often modestly paid hotel and restaurant staff, taxi-drivers and guides.
Romney's ambitious plans for housing production increases for the poor, and for open housing to desegregate suburbs, were modestly successful but often thwarted by Nixon.
In contrast, trans-acting signals are more modestly significant and often are not replicated (reviewed in [7], [17]).
He played sparingly, performed modestly and was benched often.
In the elderly, traditional influenza inactivated vaccines are often only modestly immunogenic, owing to immunosenescence.
Interventions to improve adherence have been only modestly effective because they often address single barriers to adherence, intervene at single points in time, or are imprecisely targeted to patients who may not need adherence assistance.
The other thing is that women often dress modestly in Moroccan culture, and the Western tendency to want to run around in tank tops and short when it's hot (it's usually hot!) is outside their custom.
However, unlike monogenic diseases, genes involved in complex traits often only modestly affect disease and are therefore more difficult to identify.
