modest
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Crump was always modest about what she had done on the track.
The war wasn’t long over before Truman supported legislation establishing the Atomic Energy Commission to regulate nuclear technology, swallow the Manhattan Project infrastructure and take custody of America’s modest atomic arsenal.
He was too modest to add that if you don’t have good people to collect and disseminate it, you can’t have the good data.
The same month, wholesale trade retreated 1.8% to C$84.45 billion the second steepest decline in the last two years and much weaker than the earlier estimate for a modest 0.1% rise for November.
Despite the shock of last year's US tariffs blitz, the German economy returned to growth with a modest expansion of 0.2 percent, helped by higher government and household spending, according to statistics agency Destastis.
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