modestly
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For the eighth consecutive month, inflation outpaced national home price appreciation, with CPI running 1.5 percentage points above the 0.9% annual gain-leaving real home values modestly lower year over year, the survey said.
The Bank of Canada projects that the economy will grow modestly as it adjusts to U.S. tariffs and trade policy uncertainty, though policymakers have said near-term economic growth is likely to be weaker than anticipated.
The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.
An extended gradual decay also might sometimes allow for modestly positive news such as the data that garnered so much excitement this week.
Because the market has moved modestly lower in the past couple of months as earnings have continued to grow, the multiple today is just 20 times.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
