And 16 rockets is enough to change the characteristics of a modest neighborhood like the one I live in.

He is a perfect fit for a Russia grown tired of the heroes, revolutionaries, criminals even saviours who make life exciting but rarely stable.

Once you start down at this very humble level, then you can start finding ways to see things.

To ordinary Russians he appears as modest, principled, and honest a vast contrast with the tainted politicians of the Yeltsin years.

Since becoming Chinese President in 2012, Xi Jinping has vowed to fight endemic corruption and tried to present a government that is humble and abstemious.

Valentino exhibits these personal memories as if they were trophies of his social ascent from humble couturier in Voghera, northern Italy, to idol of the international jet set.

Whatever the ultimate economic effects of China s first modest step towards floating its currency, one has to admire its strategic brilliance.

A reasonable generalization from this rather small sample would be that prosperous and constitutional democracies tend to live in peace with each other.

Silicon Valley started in the 1950's with a modest plan by Frederick Terman, a farsighted dean of Stanford's Engineering School, to create an Industrial Park on unused Stanford land.

A third reason for the modest impact of international issues on voters choice of the next president is another surprising development more agreement between and among the leading candidates than meets the eye.

For example, alternative systems of SDR allocation, with a greater proportion of SDRs given to countries actually demanding the reserves (mainly developing countries), might contribute to global growth and stability.

Despite a huge investment of time and energy, he has failed to marshal even his own troops in support of a relatively modest proposal to stave off collapse of the nation s old age insurance program.

Indeed, Europe s shift from the modest customs union of the European Economic Community to the single market and common currency of today s European Monetary Union was itself a fundamentally political move, one with strategic implications, of course.

France is southern in its current account deficit, but northern in its borrowing costs (slightly above Germany s), owing partly to inflows of capital fleeing the south, as well as to modest but positive economic growth.

If they came to be accepted as the guiding principles of European policy, Europe s economy would become petrified, with stagnant growth making it impossible to afford even modest levels of social transfers.

During 2010, high income countries are expected to achieve modest annual GDP growth of around 2.7 , while the G 20 s emerging economies, together with the rest of the developing world, are expected to grow at a robust 7.1 rate.

So long as a national government is not running more than a modest deficit, a current account deficit reflects the private sector s borrowing from abroad (or the sale of previously accumulated foreign assets).

For all of their infuriating brinkmanship, it is reasonable to assume that North Korea s leaders are not bent on national suicide, as any attempted use of their still very modest nuclear arsenal would certainly entail.

The children of government and party officials have an easier time getting a good education, finding good jobs and getting promoted in China, while young people from humble families have to struggle to gain a foothold in large cities with expensive homes.

On this day, some employees of the Walmart corporation, which employs 2.2 million people around the world, left their workplaces and picketed together with the unions and left wing activists from the corporation stores that sell products to people on low to medium incomes.