"We're doing a very good job, but we're very modest, " says Chino.
"Long Island is continuing to slip, but a modest amount, " says Jonathan Miller, president of Miller Samuel, a New York-based real estate appraisal and consultancy firm.
"If it becomes just a toy in the box of a Happy Meal, then we're just a promotional company and we'll make a modest profit, " says investor Bippy Siegal, chairman of Raycliff Investments in New York.
"People said you couldn't make money in educational toys, " he says in his modest headquarters in Hong Kong's New Territories.
John Sicher, editor of Beverage Digest, says that even modest brands can double their growth by exploiting Coke's powerful distribution network.
"All around the world individuals feel great shame when they know that others know that they have failed to be adequately modest, " Prof Fessler says.
The federal fisc is still a shambles despite the tax increase on millionaires and billionaires that Mr. Obama said would solve everything and despite the modest sequester spending cuts he says are too painful to abide.
But Watts says even that modest amount of additional business from GM is enough for XM to meet his revenue projections, given the likelihood of strong demand from Honda, Toyota, and other carmakers, plus after-market sales.
Markowitz says the drug has modest potency, but is undergoing a trial in combination with interferon and ribavirin that may show better results.
His agent, Scott Boras, never known for modest statements about his clients, says "A-Rod" has "icon value" and is the best shortstop in Major League history.
He says Target has a modest price advantage on list prices versus Amazon.com, but notes that most consumers will pay less on Amazon is they buy in a state without sales taxes.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb ( BMY - news - people ), and Geodon, from Pfizer, both make similar claims, that could lead to "a modest niche" for Fanapt, says John Newcomer, a psychiatrist at Washington University in St.
And California's independent Legislative Analyst's Office, says the fiscal downside is modest.
The key, says Dreher, is sticking to modest upgrades that enable the company to keep price points low.
In non-budgetary matters, the Senate has passed modest gun-control measures that the House says it will also accept.
The Bass family says that the area's modest size, and its strong sense of community, have made the development possible.
Mickey Eisenberg, medical director of the county's emergency medical services, says the devices make a "modest" but important contribution to the county's success against sudden cardiac arrest.
For the equipment makers, he says, that could mean a modest reduction in overall cap ex and drive a flat 2013, rather than the low-teens growth rate he previously had expected.
"The average difference was modest, but it happened early, " Flynn says.
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Diageo (nyse: DEO - news - people ) unit Burger King , meanwhile, which has itself gone on an advertising tear, has probably seen only modest same-store sales this year, Sherrick says.
As many other analysts have forecast, Trone says he sees "a slow, modest recovery in activity through 2009, but nothing resembling 'normalized' conditions, " though he expects Goldman to fare better than rivals in the long run.
He says he's been looking for a modest two-bedroom apartment in a decent neighborhood for about a year now.
Aldo Mazzaferro, an analyst at Macquarie Securities, an investment firm in New York, says future returns are likely to be more modest.
"The recovery has been modest to be diplomatic, feeble at best, " says Martchev, who looks for the SOX to take out its July low once this rally peters out and short-sellers take new positions.
"I've had a world of piledriving punishment dished out to me, brother, but I've never been hurt like I am right now since I heard that DirecTV dropped Spike, " he says in the video, which had only a modest 3, 200 views as of midday Wednesday.
Fabrizio Uberti Bona of residential brokerage firm MNS Real Estate says that most discounts for property along Second Avenue will be modest.
"Nonetheless, the Committee anticipates a gradual return to higher levels of resource utilization in a context of price stability, although the pace of economic recovery is likely to be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated, " the FOMC says.
Sales, which reached a modest 35m yuan in 2002, are doubling annually according to Ms Yu, who says that with gross margins of 25%, close to Amazon's 28%, Dangdang will break even this year.
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