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Lilly's current valuation still provides an attractive entry point. The stock trades at a modest 8% to 10% premium to its peers against 2006 and 2007 earnings and at a discount against our 2008 to 2010 forecast.

Today's modest action starts the long march to start to reform the tax breaks as they relate to the oil industry, and limits these incentives to the smaller oil companies that actually need the help the most,

Today's interest rate hike ... will only modestly affect overall auto sales. Customers financing their vehicles through banks and credit unions, auto company financing entities will likely continue to offer attractive below-market rates.

Today's equity prices presage only modest returns for investors,

I grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in New York. My parents were very religious churchgoing people. They were very strict. I was never really allowed to indulge in anything vain. Modesty always. I have three brothers and two sisters, so everything was on a budget.

He's being a little modest right now. He was the backbone of the team tonight. Without him, we wouldn't have won this game. It makes it easier for the rest of us and you can't say enough about him.

My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation.

Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.

I think I have an inherent modest level of stress, but I'm only super-aware of it when it goes away, when I'm on holiday and I think, 'Oh this feels pretty good.'

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.