He exchanged the company Mercedes for a more modest model and once surprised his colleagues in London by arriving in a taxi rather than the customary limousine.
Pleyel pianos cost between 42,000 euros or roughly $56,000 for a more modest model and range up to around 250,000 euros or about $336,000 for a bespoke concert grand.
The new, more modest model, centred on things like retail banking and managing companies' cash, is essentially the Citicorp that existed before its mammoth merger with Travelers in 1998, with a few exceptions, says Vikram Pandit, Citigroup's boss.This renewed focus on old-fashioned finance is spreading.
A Performance 3 arriving after the more modest Model 3 might strike some early pre-order customers the wrong way, if they were hoping to max out the specs on their vehicles with available options.
With a little inside knowledge, it's possible to dig beneath the surface specifications and determine whether you can afford to shell out the big bucks or if you can settle for a more modest model.
Although sexual mixing influences the spread of infection, its effect on intervention impact projections is more modest when models of high-risk populations are fitted to detailed HIV prevalence data [38].
In January came the more modest "China Model: Experiences and Difficulties".
After coveting a fancy Italian ice cream machine at a trade show, Mr. Slakas settled on a more modest domestic model.
As a result, there may be no sudden rush to sell assets when baby-boomers retire.Another reason for thinking that any fall in share prices will be more modest than crude models suggest is that it is common knowledge that the baby-boomers are nearing retirement, so market prices today should already be taking account of future demographic developments.
Our concern here is actually more modest: do these models tell us anything about how discrete geometries can be formulated such that they generate classical geometry?
