Apple has run these Black Friday sales for the last few years, and their discounts are always relatively modest.

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He had a public school education and was always very modest.

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Over our lifetimes, typically the government is always running a modest deficit.

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But he was always remorseful, genuinely modest and witty at his own expense.

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McCoy's single-mindedness in pursuit of winners borders on the obsessive, but out of the saddle he is incredibly modest and always has time for a good cause and his many fans.

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These are all relatively modest measures. (We centrists always try to balance idealism with realism.) Unfortunately, the larger opportunities for broad tax reform or a grand bargain on long-term deficits and debt are unlikely to come until after the election -- and there's no rational reason to expect that the hyperpartisan politics will end then.

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Even to the point of making modest payments, or of splitting your orders, just to make sure that that alternative supplier is always there.

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