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Louis XIII had hoped to turn his favorite hunting ground into a modest retirement home, but his son and heir made it the center of a universe, proclaiming his own grandeur in an edifice of brick, marble, gilt, and crystal.
These are modest steps, but not falsely modest ones, like some of President Clinton's recent Dick Morris-inspired micro-ideas (e.g.
During the swimsuit competition, while helping Hitler glue his modest one-piece to his modest ass, Buchanan learns that his rival is a pretty nice guy who wants to do no more than conquer Europe and kill all the Jews.
If in the end he doesn't offer very much money to address the problem, it's because he knows that any Democratic president elected in 2000 would lack the political capital for more than a modest "down-payment," which is how he described his plan.
However, the modest gender differences in the presentation and the similarity in the one-year outcome that this study suggests could provide impetus for larger and longer studies in this area, or studies with a different design e.g., case-control studies.