He is just blandly reciting his modest list of accomplishments during the past eight years.
And on his modest pay he must pay immodest taxes (see story, page 62).
Taking care of his modest Spanish-style bungalow is one way for him to pass the time.
But his modest concessions in the peace talks have seriously alienated his own right wing.
Canning had a relatively subdued grand manner, perhaps to match his modest public roles.
Casting Leonardo DiCaprio as the glamorous, elusive billionaire Gatsby and Maguire as his modest, admiring neighbor was right on.
"People said you couldn't make money in educational toys, " he says in his modest headquarters in Hong Kong's New Territories.
From his modest ranch home in the hills of Sun Valley, Calif.
Perhaps the government has cooled over his modest proposal to provide a way of overturning such things as over-cautious health and safety rulings.
"I was overwhelmed with creditors, " recalls Joo Siang over coffee in his modest office in Qingdao, which he visits at least twice a month.
But that's not easy with a big bank seeking to repossess his modest, three-bedroom townhome in Miami -- and two law firms to deal with.
The absorbing story, set in a desolate patch of the Mississippi Delta in wintertime, begins obliquely, as a man is found dead, a suicide, in his modest home.
For nearly two decades he imported diamonds cut in Armenia and Belgium and sold them out of his modest shop in Boston to retail jewelers nationally and overseas.
On the evening of Jan. 5 Adolf Merckle, Germany's fifth-richest man, opened the door of his modest home in Blaubeuren, Germany and stepped out into the frigid air.
Ms Boxer is currently trying hard to portray him as a wild-eyed radical, a charge that hardly squares with either his modest persona or his dutiful political record.
He earned income that exceeded his modest, fixed living expenses.
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The couple also plan to buy a holiday home in Cyprus, but Mr Lisk has no plans to swap his modest Citroen C3 car because he is "happy with it".
Lord Mandelson may have shown his concern for the motor industry, but those in the sector fear that his modest help will arrive too late to save any but JLR.
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The warm strings and acoustic guitars that back his sparkling falsetto are equally as dramatic, and the sound he has created is huge and anthemic in spite of his modest solo artist oeuvre.
The CEO of Goldcorp, Robert McEwen turned out to be a shrewd goldbug, turning his modest ownership in the micro cap Goldcorp into a large stake in US Gold .
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Afterwards, Tosleand was upbeat about his modest start.
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What makes Mr Blunkett's fall from grace sadder is that his modest business activities may have been motivated by an urge to provide for his sons, whose inheritance was being spent on his paternity suit.
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McCain has irked many of Republican faithful with his modest tax cut proposal and repeated calls for sweeping campaign finance reforms that many fear will give a decided edge to the Democrats in the fund-raising department.
Back in 2003, a guy in Colorado named Matthew Cole cut out a giant square hole in his living room floor, sunk in a hot tub and turned his modest bachelor pad into a magnificent poor man's grotto.
Edwards, who was born in South Carolina, has also made a point of stressing his modest roots, often describing himself as the son of a textile mill worker and noting that he was the first one in his family to go to college.
Through her they found his modest office in Surbiton, rented in the name of UniFi Consulting, and evidence of 182 bank accounts he had maintained, each one in the name of a different and obscure corporation, through which vast amounts of money had passed.
Among other things, Mr. Romney should talk about his father's modest upbringing, his wife's illness, and his wealth.
But, in his careful, modest way, Mr Fried makes some firm points about Europe's difficulties in absorbing Muslim newcomers.
Gupta began raising prices and offering his best collectors modest feel-good discounts.
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