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Be humble, be modest, but try not to be dishonest. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 9 months ago
It is part of a long process since the summer. There was expectation that rents would fall and that didn’t happen. Rents peaked last summer. Every month since then, they’ve been moving sideways, with a modest increase, it was just enough to set a new record. – Jonathan Miller	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While market participants see recession probabilities as high, they also expect the depth of the recession to be modest. – The IMF	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This provides no information on the long-term benefits or adverse effects of long-term coffee drinking, this does not provide information on the impact of coffee in people with other health conditions, and generally (the study participants) consumed modest amounts of coffee. – Peter Kistler	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s possible that these events will turn out to have very modest effects on the economy, in which case inflation will continue to be strong, in which case, you know, the path might look different, it’s also possible that this potential tightening will contribute significant tightening in credit conditions over time. And in principle, that means that monetary policy may have less work to do. We simply don’t know. – Jerome Powell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The optics around hiking rates at the same time are clearly not good, but these things are not mutually exclusive, as the central bank addresses a modest financial panic and prevent further bank runs from beginning. – Joe Brusuelas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Both groups primary and secondary prevention got benefit, which I think is impressive with the modest amount of LDL reduction. – Howard Weintraub	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is not a case where the agency relied on statutory language that is vague, cryptic, ancillary, or modest. – Elizabeth Prelogar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’ve had it, we have had situation after situation where even modest, reasonable reform gets just a full court press. – Pete Buttigieg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Though there are better, more eco-friendly ways to shop, the two approaches to shopping these sites that cause more eco burden are 1) not shopping with modest consumption in mind( buying more than you need, duplicates ‘ just in case, ’ or overindulging in extras or add-ons because of sale pricing) ; and, 2) purchasing excess with an ‘ I ’ll return this if it does n’t work ’ mindset, returns are extremely environmentally taxing, from the transit to the waste and sometimes tossed merchandise, so shop with a mindset of moderation whenever possible. – Ashlee Piper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
With a Federal Reserve committed to bringing inflation down, investors expect business investments and consumer spending to pull back, however, with most Americans still employed and seeing modest pay gains, the pullback in spending has yet to meaningfully materialize. – George Ratiu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Against this backdrop, we expect consumers will rein in their spending further in coming months, real consumer spending should see modest growth in the final quarter of the year, but we expect it will barely grow in 2023. – Gregory Daco	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Even in an age in which trillion dollar spending packages and are considered modest, the additional $20.4 billion the Biden Border Crisis has heaped onto the backs of American taxpayers is still staggering, $20.4 billion could address some very important needs of the American public, instead of covering the costs of the surge of illegal migration triggered by this administration’s policies. – Dan Stein	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Today, Goldman Sachs an analysis that said the net impact of the debt forgiveness and resuming student loan payments is likely to be very modest, but it will be slightly disinflationary, so it will bring down inflation. – Cindy Axne	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is important to emphasize that the study mainly shows modest but significant improvement in short-term memory, but does not show clear effects on long-term memory since the test was based on word recall only a minute or so after learning the words, cognitive experts would say what you recall from an hour ago is long-term memory. – Rudy Tanzi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As always, this mostly affects families who are situated in states where our rights are challenged, the anxiety also affects mostly those with more modest financial means, as it is scary to think that protecting your family might require expensive legal fights or relocation. – Ron Poole-Dayan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are broadly trying to figure out what has 60 votes, but I think the template in Florida is the right one, which is, do some significant mental health investment, some school safety money and some modest but impactful changes in gun laws, that's the kind of package we're putting together right now. That's the kind of package I think can pass the Senate. – Read MoreMurphy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It would overturn modest and overwhelmingly popular safeguards like waiting periods, informed consent laws and possibly even parental notification. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In secondary prevention, aspirin is important. If you have a stent, if you've had a myocardial infarction or a stroke, for all of those people, aspirin works. It provides a modest but definite benefit. – Steven Nissen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When James Cireddu look at all the studies that have been done recently, it seems that the modest benefit of aspirin and otherwise low-risk individuals is generally negated by the increase in long-term GI problems, bleeding with aspirin, while we said it could be considered to give aspirin to someone who never had a heart attack or stroke, that should probably be the last of the things on the priority list. – Roger Blumenthal	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The shale supply response would further remain modest initially, due to drilling times, still cautious producers and a tight service sector. – Goldman Sachs	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If Putin does back down, it would be a modest foreign policy victory for Biden, and it would likely strengthen NATO, which would be a good thing, i doubt the Ukraine issue, if diplomatically resolved now, will matter much in the midterms nine months from now. – Matt Mackowiak	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They clearly showed that as you increase the amount of sleep, energy intake reduced and this in turn led to modest reductions in weight, it is likely that if this were extended, there could be more significant changes in weight. – Bhanuprakash Kolla	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is not some modest bill about ballot access. It is a sprawling takeover of our whole political system, it was never even intended to attract bipartisan support. This partisan Frankenstein bill that House Democrats slapped together was intended to do just one thing and one thing only: give the Senate Democratic leader a pretext – a pretext to break the Senate. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

Be humble, be modest, but try not to be dishonest.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
9 months ago

It is part of a long process since the summer. There was expectation that rents would fall and that didn’t happen. Rents peaked last summer. Every month since then, they’ve been moving sideways, with a modest increase, it was just enough to set a new record.

– Jonathan Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While market participants see recession probabilities as high, they also expect the depth of the recession to be modest.

– The IMF

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This provides no information on the long-term benefits or adverse effects of long-term coffee drinking, this does not provide information on the impact of coffee in people with other health conditions, and generally (the study participants) consumed modest amounts of coffee.

– Peter Kistler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s possible that these events will turn out to have very modest effects on the economy, in which case inflation will continue to be strong, in which case, you know, the path might look different, it’s also possible that this potential tightening will contribute significant tightening in credit conditions over time. And in principle, that means that monetary policy may have less work to do. We simply don’t know.

– Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The optics around hiking rates at the same time are clearly not good, but these things are not mutually exclusive, as the central bank addresses a modest financial panic and prevent further bank runs from beginning.

– Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Both groups primary and secondary prevention got benefit, which I think is impressive with the modest amount of LDL reduction.

– Howard Weintraub

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not a case where the agency relied on statutory language that is vague, cryptic, ancillary, or modest.

– Elizabeth Prelogar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve had it, we have had situation after situation where even modest, reasonable reform gets just a full court press.

– Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Though there are better, more eco-friendly ways to shop, the two approaches to shopping these sites that cause more eco burden are 1) not shopping with modest consumption in mind( buying more than you need, duplicates ‘ just in case, ’ or overindulging in extras or add-ons because of sale pricing) ; and, 2) purchasing excess with an ‘ I ’ll return this if it does n’t work ’ mindset, returns are extremely environmentally taxing, from the transit to the waste and sometimes tossed merchandise, so shop with a mindset of moderation whenever possible.

– Ashlee Piper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With a Federal Reserve committed to bringing inflation down, investors expect business investments and consumer spending to pull back, however, with most Americans still employed and seeing modest pay gains, the pullback in spending has yet to meaningfully materialize.

– George Ratiu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Against this backdrop, we expect consumers will rein in their spending further in coming months, real consumer spending should see modest growth in the final quarter of the year, but we expect it will barely grow in 2023.

– Gregory Daco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even in an age in which trillion dollar spending packages and are considered modest, the additional $20.4 billion the Biden Border Crisis has heaped onto the backs of American taxpayers is still staggering, $20.4 billion could address some very important needs of the American public, instead of covering the costs of the surge of illegal migration triggered by this administration’s policies.

– Dan Stein

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today, Goldman Sachs an analysis that said the net impact of the debt forgiveness and resuming student loan payments is likely to be very modest, but it will be slightly disinflationary, so it will bring down inflation.

– Cindy Axne

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is important to emphasize that the study mainly shows modest but significant improvement in short-term memory, but does not show clear effects on long-term memory since the test was based on word recall only a minute or so after learning the words, cognitive experts would say what you recall from an hour ago is long-term memory.

– Rudy Tanzi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As always, this mostly affects families who are situated in states where our rights are challenged, the anxiety also affects mostly those with more modest financial means, as it is scary to think that protecting your family might require expensive legal fights or relocation.

– Ron Poole-Dayan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are broadly trying to figure out what has 60 votes, but I think the template in Florida is the right one, which is, do some significant mental health investment, some school safety money and some modest but impactful changes in gun laws, that's the kind of package we're putting together right now. That's the kind of package I think can pass the Senate.

– Read MoreMurphy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It would overturn modest and overwhelmingly popular safeguards like waiting periods, informed consent laws and possibly even parental notification.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In secondary prevention, aspirin is important. If you have a stent, if you've had a myocardial infarction or a stroke, for all of those people, aspirin works. It provides a modest but definite benefit.

– Steven Nissen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When James Cireddu look at all the studies that have been done recently, it seems that the modest benefit of aspirin and otherwise low-risk individuals is generally negated by the increase in long-term GI problems, bleeding with aspirin, while we said it could be considered to give aspirin to someone who never had a heart attack or stroke, that should probably be the last of the things on the priority list.

– Roger Blumenthal

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The shale supply response would further remain modest initially, due to drilling times, still cautious producers and a tight service sector.

– Goldman Sachs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If Putin does back down, it would be a modest foreign policy victory for Biden, and it would likely strengthen NATO, which would be a good thing, i doubt the Ukraine issue, if diplomatically resolved now, will matter much in the midterms nine months from now.

– Matt Mackowiak

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They clearly showed that as you increase the amount of sleep, energy intake reduced and this in turn led to modest reductions in weight, it is likely that if this were extended, there could be more significant changes in weight.

– Bhanuprakash Kolla

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is not some modest bill about ballot access. It is a sprawling takeover of our whole political system, it was never even intended to attract bipartisan support. This partisan Frankenstein bill that House Democrats slapped together was intended to do just one thing and one thing only: give the Senate Democratic leader a pretext – a pretext to break the Senate.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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