It began as a one-man operation with a modest $50,000 in sales during its first year, 1949.
He conducted his gubernatorial campaign operations in a modest downtown warehouse.
Franchising operations, in which an individual is allowed to go into business for himself under the widely advertised name of a chain of motels, thus realizing the benefits of chain operations with relatively modest investment, has achieved remarkable growth for several chains.
Last week, Allen and Audrey Murray, the Maryland couple with a modest breeding operation, sold the colt's sire, Our Emblem, for a reported $8 million.
Acer, the computer company based in Taiwan, decided to test the waters with a modest assembly operation at Lappeenranta, a small outpost on the Finnish side of the border, about 620 miles from Moscow.
The bank, with a modest British operation of 55 full-time workers, has so far issued 120,000 cards, with an introductory rate of 6.9percentthatat later rises to 17.9percentt, according to the Nilson Report, a credit card industry newsletter in Oxnard, Calif.
The Amerada Hess Corporation said it had posted big gains in revenues and profits from exploration and production in the quarter, along with a modest decline in refining and marketing operations.
They began with a modest wish list.
Richard arrives with a modest proposal.
Philip Gourevitch with a modest proposal for Haitian relief.
