If it does, most people expect to find a work of modest historical interest, rather than the secret of life.
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Leaders have agreed to a parallel growth pact, albeit modest, and to work on other measures, such as common banking supervision.
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Rarely are people easy to read, especially because stars often go out of their way to be modest, and divas work hard to insulate themselves from criticism.
Most teachers work tirelessly, with modest pay, sometimes digging into their own pocket for school supplies -- just to make a difference.
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In principle a modest dose of controlled inflation might work wonders.
Roy was an extremely modest person who did so much good work for the people of Norfolk which he would never mention.
In a corner of a Silicon Valley neighborhood of modest tract homes, robots are quietly at work generating electricity.
Construction work has triggered landslides, knocking modest hillside homes off foundations.
Half-baked ideas for new Fund programmes are not as helpful as would be concrete, albeit more modest-seeming, measures to help financial markets work better.
We've spotlighted mostly the more prominent players, but countless others, more modest but often even more creative, are also at work.
The once ambitious American plans for ending the war are now being replaced by the far more modest goal of setting the stage for the Afghans to work out a deal among themselves in the years after most Western forces depart, and to ensure Pakistan is on board with any eventual settlement.
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Modest signs of progress notwithstanding, we have a lot of work to do.
Social Security was designed to give a few years of modest benefits to people whose bodies were worn out through coal mining, factory work and other physically demanding labor.
Work through the numbers on Bush's proposal and the benefits look modest--at best.
Lawmakers interviewed for this article say aides work hard for smaller salaries than they could earn elsewhere, and that modest bonuses are one way of offering a reward.
And what they also understand is if we were just willing to make some modest adjustments to our tax code and to how entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid work, this problem would vanish.
The unemployment number just looks at those actively looking for work, therefore if labour force participation stays low it will only take modest job growth to be responsible for the unemployment rate to enjoy a significant decline.
We said if people took a modest pay cut, we could stop 400 people from losing their job - that did work, there is no question about that.
As such, you wind up with the oddball outcome in which you could have a modest fine and suspension imposed upon you by FINRA but when you attempt to return to work, you learn that your willful misconduct rendered you a statutorily disqualified individual.
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Additionally, native Luis Oliveira Goncalves took a modest Angola side to the 2006 World Cup where he finally received the plaudits for years of unsung work.
The World Bank, too, whose work in developing countries long emphasized grand infrastructure projects like dams and bridges, is now financing modest but significant improvements in the world's informal settlements.
He welcomed a modest improvement in some figures, pointing to an increase of 33, 000 in the number of people in work since the same time last year.
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It is these organizations that have grown from modest beginnings to reach wide swaths of the population with new opportunities, and these unsung heroes who will continue to work to improve the quality of life for their fellow Afghans long after the cameras and war reporters are gone.
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