But with a modest price point and quality components we found a clear winner in the Prodeco Mariner S, a small, sleek looking bike which that was delivered in a rather small box.
Instead, they offered proposals that were modest to the point of self-delusion.
At one point the modest traffic is brought to a standstill by a black bear ambling nonchalantly out of a copse.
Jobless claims held steady, and point to a modest uptick in payroll growth in the May employment report on June 1.
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Other estimates point to a modest drop in poverty in recent years.
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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Using Katrina as an example, which was three times more costly in terms of damages, Sandy will likely produce a noticeable impact on industrial production and retail sales of a few tenths of a percentage point and a modest decline in consumer confidence, Barclays economists in New York calculate.
In aggregate, it seems to point to a continued modest expansion, and an economy that is neither falling off a cliff nor firing on all cylinders.
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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.
Eurozone manufacturing PMI increased to 46.0 from 46.4 in November, while Germany and France both showed modest increases, but remained below the 50 point mark that separates contraction from expansion.
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This week's half-point cut went down badly with share investors, because they wanted a three-quarter-point cut and interpreted Mr Greenspan's more modest offering as a signal that he will do only what the economy requires, not what the stockmarket craves.
But, as Nouriel Roubini and Christian Menegatti point out in a recent report, that retrenchment is modest by historical standards.
Let us hope for the sake of the poor that other bureaucracies are managing the modest sequester cuts more responsibly than the FAA. But the larger point is that from the beginning the FAA's delays were deliberate and avoidable.
We sometimes have modest exposure to ETPs and may invest in PCRDX, although at this point, most of our portfolios remain concentrated in diversified equity funds or fixed income funds.
The point is that, based on its past experience, Russia should have seen continued modest improvement in the early months of 2013 but that sundry forms of mortality that were usually of limited importance increased sharply.
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But that is a hard point to sustain, given that the past few years have seen a worldwide recession and modest recovery.
Now, I just want to point out -- and this brings me to the second problem -- when we made a very modest proposal as part of our package, our health care reform package, to eliminate the subsidies going to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage, we were attacked across the board, by many on your aisle, for slashing Medicare.
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